Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1930, Page 21

SPORTS. THE EV. G__STAR, WASHINGTO D. C. SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1930. No Loafing in Boxing, Griffiths Declares : Basket Ball Tip-Off Modification Due FIGHTER MUST BE WARY OR BE TOTED FROM RING Flistic Sport Tougher Than Foot Ball, According to Tuffy, Who Has Followed Both—Figures He’ll Reach Peak Before He Becomes 26. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. OOT BALL!” exclaimed Tuffy Griffiths. “That's my game. I always have liked to play it and to watch it. I played on the Trinity School team of Sioux City. I used to play half- back. Then I got up to 110 pounds and played fullback, but before I quit I weighed 150 pounds and was heavy enough for guard. We had a good eleven. One season nobody scored a point against us.” “Which is harder—foot ball or boxing?” I asked. “That isn’t easy to answer,” said Tuffy, “because they are so different. In foot ball you can loaf a little and let the other 10 men carry you along. If you loaf much in boxing, you either lose the de- cision or a couple of men carry you out. In the ring nobody calls signals for you or helps you do the work. You are the only friend you have inside those ropes and you have to depend entirely on your own ability. “Johnny Risko said to me after our last bout, ‘From now on, what you do is going to depend entirely on yourself. I was in good condi- tion and I never wanted to win a fight more. I have licked about all of them and now you have trimmed me. You can go as far as you have the courage and de- termination to go. “And Risko—he’s a nice fellow—cer- tainly was in good conditior. that night,” continued Griffiths, “I couldn’t figure what held him up. I got some clean shots at him and I never hit a man harder, but he stuck on his feet. Once LAYTON AGAIN KING OF 3BANK CUEISTS Missourian Beats Reiselt for Eighth Title in PAULINO, IN RALLY, LICKS VON PORAT After Three-Round Beating Basque Easily Scores Over Otto. By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, January 11.—Old Paulino Uzcudun, the brawny Basque woodchopper, may be going back, but Otto von Porat, belting Norwegian from Chicago, will never believe it. Otto poured heavy rights and lefts into Umsle's rock-ribbed chin for three rounds of their 10-round match in Madison Square Garden; had the Span- iard tottering about apparently ready for a knockout and then saw, and felt, Paulino rally fiercely to gain the de- cision as 16,000 of the faithful cheered him on. It was an amazing victory for the woodchopper, who seemed in recent bat- tles to have lost much of the effective- ness that carried him to victory over many of the leading heavyweights of & year or 50 ago. It appears likely that Paulino, in all his career, never absorbed so terrific a beating as he did in the first three rounds last night. Von Porat, punching accurately and with deadly power, sank lefts flush on Paulino’s chin and dug into the Basque’s body with heavy body or twice he did fall into me, but he al- ways wrestled around until he was all right again. He is smart and he knows all the tricks of the game. He'd roll with my punches and turn his head Just enougg to spoil their full effect.” “Do you think?” I asked, “that Risko is the thoughest of the lot to box?” Thinks Paulino Toughest. “No answered Tuffy. “I think; Paulino is the toughest. He is so unorthodox that you can't figure what he is going to do. Every once in a while he will let a wild right fly at you, but those are easy to keep away {rom if you are alert. His left hook is his best punch. He caught me with one Stiff left that jarred_me. And, if you do step inside that hook, Paulino keeps his jaw so covered by his shoulder that you are afraid to punch hard for fear you may catch him on top of the head and your hand.” What are you going to do now?” “I don't know,” said Tuffy. “I want to fight Sharkey. I think I can beat him, but it looks as if I am not going to get the chance to try. It seems hard | to get the matches you want. I was| promised a bout with Loughran. but he fought Braddock instead, and, as a| heavyweight, I thought I was going to | get Scott a couple of times, but that | I said, “and have plenty of time. You should continue to | grow a little and get better for several vears. Most athlefes don’t reach their poak before they are about 26.” I figure that T'll reach mine before that,” said Tufly. “I'm 22 and 5 feet 1115 inches and I weigh 185 pounds. I fizure that if I am going to fight my way to the top I am plenty big enough and had better do it before I get any older. I am slowing up a little as I take on weight. and I want to keep| busy while I still have my speed. Has Other Ambitions. “I am not going to stay in this busi- ress all my life. I have seen too many | come out of it punch drunk. You never will find me cutting out paper dolis. My | mother never was very strong for foot ball and I don't think she likes boxing much better. I think, though, that my | father gets some kick out of it. He's a big man and I think he likes to sons who can take care of themselves. I have an older brother who was a better | boxer than I ever will be. He had the | best left hand I ever saw. My oldest brother was pretty husky, too. He went to the University of Nebraska until the war came and then went to France with | L the 89th Division. He was in aviation. My youngest brother is still in school. No, I don’t know what he is going to | O do. but he won’t be a professional boxer. “How old was I when I first boxed? Well, I must have been about 16 when 1 really started. My father owned an interest in a heavyweight and when the ‘heavyweight fought in the final I used to g0 on in one of the preliminaries. It gave me experience.” ! A nice youngster, Tuffy Grifiiths, and one talented in his profession. (Copsright. 1030, by North American News- paper Alliunce.) FLOWERS, KING TUT BOUT CALLED DRAW| 20 Years. BY ORLO L. ROBERTSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, January 11.—Johnny Layton, a red-haired Missourian, is perched on top of the three- cushioned billiard world for the eighth time in 20 years of com- petition. He retained his title last night by downing Otto Reiselt of Philadelphia, 50 to 32 in 43 innings. It was the final round of the week's tournament. Although the pair of old masters have been battling in championship three-cushion play together for a decade it was the first time they have ever met in a final game. Reiselt won his only title in 1925, while Layton was in retirement. Last night the little Philadelphia German stylist sought to match Layton with a daring safety game. For 28 innings he was successful turning in billiard for carom. Layton Gets Hot. Then came the break. With clock- like consistency Layton began to roll up the score. In 16 innings he counted 30 billiards, 23 of which were made in the last eight innings. It was during this remarkable spurt that the cham- plon ran his high cluster of 8. Reiselt sought to stay in the battle, counting 8 in two consecutive innings, but as a rule he found himself fronted with a defensive style of play that was almost as_brilliant as Layton's offense. Born in the Illinois village of Stewardson, Layton started playing | pocket billiards in 1902. His first year he won the St. Louis City title and the | Missouri State championship. Came Up in 1909, It was not until 1909, however, that he became a national figure. Over the cond in champlonship competition. in 1916 he won his first world's pocket title and then turned to three-cushion, at which he won his initial champion- ship in 1920, defeating the late Bob Cannefax. The final standing, giving games won, lost, high run, best game and total orusacuad Schuler The championship carried with salary of $6,000 a year, a cash prize of $1,200, 16 per cent of the net gate re- receipts, which were estimated at $500, and renumerations from exhibitions. CRICKET PLAYER MAKES INTERNATIONAL RECORD| CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Jan- uary 11 (/).—A feat unparalleled in in- ternational cricket was performed here yesterday in the opening of the test match between England and New Zea- land when M. J.,C. Allom, young Sur- Pr the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 11—Because the | judges and referee failsd to agree, | Pruce Flowers, sharpshooting Negro lightweight of New Rochelle, N. Y., to- | day is credited with holding the rough | King Tut of Minn:apolis to a draw. They fought 10 sizzling rounds in the Chicago Stadium last night, with Dave | Barry, the referee, casting his ballot | for Tat, while one judge voted for the Nogro, and the other for a dra Tut_continually set the pz ping Flowers for a count of nine in the third round, and otherwise mauled him | et close range. Flowers, however, scored | efTectively at long-distanc: boxing, but | was not successful in keeping the rough Mrinneapolis lightweight challenger at & gafe distance As a result of the outcome, negoti- ations were under way today to match Tut and Flowers for a return engage- ment at the stadium January 24, with Jockie Fields, world welterweight champlon, meeting Vince Dundee, brother of th> former titlcholder, in an- ©*her 10-rounder. Filds last night made a chopping Wack of Jimmy Owens. Oklahoma City wolter, winning on a technical knock- cut in two rounds. Billy Wallace, Clevelan dlightweight, pounded out an a5y victory over Danny Belmont of Chicago, scoring & t-chnical knockout in nine rounds. CALLAGHER WINS OVER GROSSO ON A DECISION NEW YORK, January 11—Showing cuperior stamina and speed, Marty Gal- Jagher, Washington heavyweight boxer, pgrined the decision over Johnny Grosso of Mount non, N. Y., last night in the semi-wind-up to the Paulino-Von Porat bout in Madison Square Garden. In two previous bouts Grosso has been awarded the decision over Galla- ¢her, but the Washington battler went throtigh last night's 10 grueling rounds in a manner that left no doubt as to the best man. For the first five rounds the bout was fairly even, but toward the last Gallagher’s superiority became marked. AGGRESSIVE BELANGER STOPS CLINE IN FIFTH ‘WINNIPEG, Manitoba, January 11 (7).—On_the offensive from the first click of the gong, Charley Belanger, Ca- nadian _ light-heavyweight _champion and aspirant for the world title, knocked out Battling Tiger Johnny Cline of San Francisco in the fifth round of a bout here last night. Tt was the first knockout suffered by the Ccast battler in 340 bouts. rey amateur, captured the wickets of four batsmen with five balls. He also did the “Hattrick,” taking three wickets with successive balls. The wicket was in excellent condi- tion, but Allom found it entirely to his liking. He sent down a number of offerings which came up fast from the pitch with a leg break. After a dozen overs he was quite unplayable. Nichols kept a consistent length and with Al- | lom bowled practically through the en- | tire New Zealand innings. Quick Action Gets Point on Court BY SOL METZGER. California has the ball out of bounds | on the side line near the scoring end | of the field. It's a tough game. Stan- ford just has to oe whipped. Where- | upon ‘Coach “Nibs” Price of the Golden Bears digs deep into his bag of tricks | | and his team comes through with a | basket from the floor. | | “Just two Californians face the team- mate out of bounds with the ball. They are No. 1 and No. 2. As No. 1 drives | | | | | | | i Ml fr0 toward the Stanford player, B, guarding No. 3, No. 2 starts for the basket, then swerves in to take a short pass from No. 3. The trick is in the quick action | of No. 3. As he passes he rushes on a dead linc | for the basket. You see, his pass| momentarily occupies the attention of | his immediate opponent, B. But before B gets under way No. 3 has a nice lead on him. He turns and takes a quick overhead pass from No. 2, a pass No. 2 also makes in a flash after receiving 20-year stretch he never finished below | By the Associated Pre !buslnm after polishing off Al Spohrer blows. After three rounds of this pun- ishment Paulino’s nose was bleeding freely, his left eye turned red and his face was badly battered. Then the woodchopper began to fight. He charged in close and belted Von Porat about the body until the Nor- weglan was forced to abandon his sharp- shooting and spend all his time evolving a defense for Paulino's leather barrage, which seemed to come from every direc- tion at once. Von Porat tired under the Spaniard’s relentless attack and lost the punching accuracy that, early in the fight, seemed to forecast the first knockout of Paulino's career. Von Porat took the first three rounds, but Paulino won all the rest ex- cept the fourth, which was even. After the fight the Norwegian said he had been handicapped from the fourth round on by injuries to his hands. Von Porat had a 6-pound edge in the weights. He scaled 203} to 196% for Paulino. HOPPE WILL SHOW SKILL WITH CUE HERE TUESDAY i ‘Willie Hoppe, billiard crack, who for 16 years held the 18.2 balkline crown and retains the 18.1 title, has turned to the three-cushion style and will meet Andrew Ponzi of Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon and night at the Lewis & Krauss billiard room. Hoppe also will face the best Washington players at balkline after the games with Ponzi. Hoppe, a colorful cueist, has appeared here several times in the past few years. SHIRES IS WANTED FOR ONE MORE BOUT| CHICAGC, Janua 11. — Charles Arthur Shires, the Great Man, may or may not have retired from the fist-fight in Boston last night, but promoter Jim Mullen today expressed the hope that he might induce the babbling ball play- er-pugilist to engage in one more fight. Mullen wants Shires to meet George Trafton, his conqueror, in a return en- gagement. The big professional foot ball player is willing and Shires had | expressed a desire to reverse the de- | cision victory scored by Trafton. Meanwhile Mullen also is attempting to match Battling Criss, the heavy- weight from Rockford, Mich, with Trafton. Criss got his name in the papers by claiming somebody asked him to lay down to Shires in a fight which was to have taken place in De- troit New Year day. STREET PUTS FAITH IN CARD TWIRLERS ST. LOUIS, January 11 (#).—When the St. Louls Cardinals go into the 1930 National League pennant fray they | will be relying chiefly upon a come- | back by their pitching staffi—minus | Grover Cleveland Alexander—an in- creased Infleld rescrve strength and the leadership of another new manager to | SENSATIONAL Bowling Stars’ Fondness the Coliseum in the openi But don’t string wi This is the fourth Campbel completed its schedule with three A year ago Bradley Man a strong lead. But he was al count of 564. total of 1,805. In the preceding year Red Me- gaw hooked up two big sets—653 and 621—and entered the final with a commanding margin. The last hurdle looked soft, but re- sulted in a harrowing experience. Megaw hit almost every target, but he got every split known to duckpins and other stars closed in on him. A desperate struggle it turned out to be, but Red’s al- most pitiful set of 554 put him under the wire a winner with a total of 1,828. In the first sweepstakes, held in 1927, Glenn Wolstenholme _almost _ reversed the performances of Megaw and Mand- ley. Glenn started with a modest 582, increased the pace to 625 in the second skirmish and put on full steam for a 637 in the last. His total of 1,844 still is the record for the 15 games. Best at Right Time. Wolstenholme’s best showing was under the toughest conditions. The bowler entering the last test of the Campbell sweepstakes with a big chance to win is thinking as much about that chance as he is the business of taking advantage of it, and in several instances this psychology has been fatal: Two notable faflures in the sweep- stakes were Perce Ellett and Happy Burtner, but both were victims more of alley conditions than psychology. In the first event, Ellett rolled 610 and 638 for his first two sets, and was well in front of the fleld. The third set was shot on slicked alleys and try as he might Ellett couldn't get his hook up to the headpin. He learned early in the set that those alleys were not fixed right for him. If he forced his ball it crossed if he tried not to make allowance for curve. The first two games about de- stroyed his confidence, and Perce spent | a miserable evening. His score was 503. Hap Slipped Two Ways. Burtner, who takes a long run with many short steps before delivering the | ball, is at a disadvantage on slippery THE SPO P ping. blasted into debris, with little left can face. Vanderbilt and W. A. Alexander of “Just 28 years ago,” said Yost, as the game started, “I had my Michigan team lined up against Stanford and Dan McGugin here was playing guard for use. We beat Stanford, 49 to 0, without using a substitute. We left | Ann Arbor in a heavy snow, and we played in a temperature above 80. But it was Stanford that needed the sub- | stitutes that day.” Alexander, coaching Georgia Tech, had sent his team against California in the same Tournament of Roses game a year ago. It might be recorded in this connec- tion, a fact that McGugin and Alexan- der brought forward as Pittsburgh was being slaughtered, that the South had made three invasions of the West Coast in this same annual event with- out losing a game. Alabama beat Washington and tled Stanford, while Georgia Tech beat California. Each time that Pittsburgh elected to take the kick-off Fielding Yost came near diving into the radio. ‘That's the idea,” he sald, “receive the kick-off and then you've only got 80 yards to g0 to a touchdown. Eighty yards to go when they can hardly make a first down. If Pittsburgh keeps up that strategy she’ll get beaten, 40 to 0. Pittsburgh did and got beaten almost that badly. Once Chief Fa ! 'HAT is the chief fault of the make them a title threat. Changing managers has become &l most a habit with the Cardinals. This year finds them with their sixth in | about as many seasons in the grizzled | old veteran Charles “Gabby” Street, | coach of the 1929 Red Birds and suc- | cessor to Bill McKechnie. | Street expects to present much the | same outfit of front line troops who | went through the 1929 battle and ended up in a fourth place retreat after a brilliant start. Gabby, former major league catcher and somewhat of an ex- pert in handling moundsmen, is re- posing much confidence in recovery of his pitchers. His particular reliance is in Bill Hallahan, young left-hander who waited until September last year to win his first game and then won four in impressive form. He also be- lieves the veterans, Jess Haines and Wze Willie Sherdel ‘will return to their best form. backed up by Sylvestor Johnson, Harold Haid and Fred Frank- house, all regulars. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. | DETROIT.—Tommy Freeman, Cleve- land, outpointed Young Jack Thomp- | son, San Francisco (10). BOSTON. — Charles Arthur (The Great) Shires stopped Al Spohrer, Boston (4); Erne Schaff, Boston, out- CHICAGO.—King Tutf, Minneapolis, | and Bruce Flowers, New Rochelle, N. Y., drew (10): Jackie Fields, world | welterweight champion, stopped Jimmy | Owens, Oklahoma City, Okla. (2), non- title; Billy Wallace, Cleveland, stopped Danny Delmont, Chicago (9); Barney Ross, Chicago, outpointed Louie New, Milwaukee (6). OMAHA, Nebr.— Tommy _ Grogan stopped Joey Kaufman, New York (&), EAU CLAIRE, Wis.—Ollie Bartlett, Minneapolis, knocked out Flash Ran- dom, Des Moines, Iowa (2). MINNEAPOLIS—Dick Daniels, Min- neapolis, outpointed Armand Emanuel, | San Prancisco (10): Big Boy Peterson, New_ Orleans, outpointed Mike Mandell, St. Paul (10). PHILADELPHIA. — Nick Baltimore, outpointed Gene Philadelphia (10 Bosciano, Buffalo, the ball. Then No. 3 dribbles in for a one-hand push shot for a basket Copyright, 1930, Publishers’ Syndicate.) . SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Bearcat Wright, Omaha, outpointed Long Tom Hawkins. San Diego (10). | idea, so Bobby Jones' game proves, is pointed Al Friedman, Boston (10). |5 |t average golfer?” asks one of them. Without going much further into the matter or pondering this query any longer it might be said that one chief fault, so far as the average golfer is concerned, is that at the top of the swing he is in no position to apply either power or control. This means that his balance or weight shifting is wrong, his pivoting Make Putts, Chip Shots With Wrists Putts and chips are played entirely with the wrists and arms. But if you play them entirely with the wrists you'll scoop the ball and not do well. The big ARC CLUBHEAD FOLLOWS IM CHIP SHOT-NOTE. LOW FOLLOW THROUGH ~ BELOW 15 WAY 70 < PLAY THE SHOT >~ -0 i THE LEFT WRIT TAKES CLUB BACK~ PRACTICALLY NO MOVEMENT OF ARMS IN BALKSWING St Ty~ -9 WRISTS DO HITTIG DOWN 10 POINT WHERE CLUB MEETS BALL~ FOLLOWS Low o follow through low. The sketches above show exactly how this result is obtained. The action of the knees, the hips, the arms on the backswing and at time | of tmpact is well described in Sol Metz- r's leaflet on the Pivot. He will send t to any reader requesting it. Address SET LIKELY IN SWEEPSTAKES OPENER for Coliseum in Tourney Play Revealed by Statistics—About Forty Assault Maples in Classic Tonight. BY R. D. THOMAS. AKE a little wager that somel body gets really hot tonight at ing set of the Howard Campbell sweepstakes and rolls, ita‘yilm 11 sweepstakes and no bowler yet has im in the other two sets. powerful scores. dley rolled 635 as a starter and assumed Imost a flop in the second set with a He came back in the third with 606 to win with a runways. He encountered them in the last set after having scored 614 and 608 in the first two last year. Only Hap knows how he suffered in carving up the triangle box after box for a score of 533 to finish out of the money. But why forecast a_sensational score tonight? = On the 1928 sweepstakes dope. The fleld averaged many pins better a set at the Coliseum than at the King Pin and Convention Hall. For some reason tournament scores at the Coliseum always have been excep- tional. The sweepstakes bowlers last year averaged 575-4 at the Coliseum, 563-11 at the King Pin and 561-5 at Convention Hsll, and the high set was rolled at the Coliseum—Dutch Weid- man'’s 644. About 40 will take part this time. The prospects include Bradley Mandley, George Friend, Paul Harrison, Walter Megaw, Chester Bild, Norman Schroth, Hebrew Interclub League. The last week, which saw a further tightening of the league race, was fea- tured by some stellar bowling. In the most important match the Arora Club took two games from the Pals Club and marched past their opponents into first place. The Les Amis Club took the odd game from the Mardelle Club, while the Vistas, Regents and Moseans swept their sets with the Theta S(Ifiml Gamma, Young Friends and Iris Club, respectively. The Vista Club had high set for the week with 1,666. Sam Bortnick, with a record break- ing 383 set, went further mmfl:he lead for 1 e leading average. Good-~ man ev‘lf: close hehfindrfifil 374, while Wasserman and Deskin had sets of 343 | and 342, respectively.” Team Standing. Team Arora Club. Pals Club. . Mardelle Club. is Club Regent Club Vista Club. Jr. Young F' Mosean Club. Young Friends Theta Sigma Gamma Records. High team game—Young Friends Club, 589. High team set—Vista Club, 1,691. High individual average—Bortnick (Vista), 111.15. High' _individual game — Kolodin (Vista), 150. High ‘individual set—Bortnick (Vista), 383. High spares—Bortnick (Vista), 97. High strikes—Levy (Arora), 24. High flat game—Tenenbaum (Vista), 6. ds Club. Howard Campbell, Bernie Frye, Clem Weidman, Jack Wolstenholme, Olife Pacini, Al Pischer, George Isemann, Hokie Smith, Jack Talbert, Harry Hil- lard, Heine Scheetar, John Rlick, Car- roll Daly, Joe Mulroe, Leo Rinaldi, Ray ‘Ward, Charles Walson, Perce Wolfe, Irvine Billhimer, Tony Santini, Henry Hiser, Oscar Hiser, Boots Holloran, Hugh Waldrop, W. Kessler, John Dep- LADIES' INDEPENDENT LEAGUE. Team Standing. Nationals ... Capitol . Lansburgh "... 14 10 Travelers ' I . Peerless 114 10 Tip Tops ... Records. h team e—Nationals, 479. Hith feam set Nationals. 1384, me—Sumner. 137, t—Welch, 330. I heard the Southern California: ! in the same room with Fielding Yost of Michigan, Dan McGugin of p,ueias o, uty, Red Morgan, E. L. McCall, Arthur Logan, Ken Thorpe, Sam Benson, Eddic Espey, Bert Hell, Henry Newman, Hugh Irey, E. Furr, Al Work, Mag Wood and Clark. ‘They'll start at 7:30 o’clock. Semi-finals in the King Pin No. 2 five-back tournament will be held Mon- day night at 10 o'clock. Results of the second elimination round follow: CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT. too much. He was uncertain of control B 118 173 130 177 NSOLATION FLIGHT. 162 168 185 150 108 141 168 157 155 145 159 129 The Holy Comforter League has moved to the Northeast Temple and will roll there every Thursday night. RTLIGHT By GRANTLAND RIC! Blasting a Defense. ITTSBURGH, Army and Carnegie Tech were supposed to have at least a fair average of defensive strength—something above the general average. Yet against these three teams Southern California and Stanford ran up nearly 120 points in a triple slaughter that none of the Eastern invaders could come close to stop- The defensive walls of Pitt, Army and Carnegie Tech were except the dust. This is evidence again that the West has more man power than most Eastern teams -Pittsburgh game over the radio Georgia Tech. is wrong or incorrectly done and his head and neck are locked to his spine to such a degree that any freedom of hand and arm movement almost im- possible. Under such conditions it is also practically impossible for him to keep head where it should be through the moment of impact, Only One Bout. NLESS Jack Dempsey returns to action there will be only one heavy- weight bout this next season that will mean anything. That will have to be the battle between Sharkey and Schmeling. They stand out as the only two survivors who should settle the argument. One trouble here is that Schmeling needs at least one hard test, possibly two, before he is ready to face as & man as Sharkey. He has wasf the better mn of a year through the worst handling any heavy- weight prospect ever drew. Schmeling was the best looking shot of the lot last Summer, but almost everything possible has been done to kill his chance. If he can overcome this handi- cap he will be a wonder. If Dempsey steps back in he can outdraw Sharkey and Schmeling thrown together. Along his line a lot depends on just how the situation develops later on. At this point it has been almost wrecked. The Broad and Narrow Line. ERE is a peculiar feature of mod- ern foot ball. It can be shown along the following lines: Notre Dame had one of the great teams of the year, a team many rank as the best, a team that all must rank as one of the three best— Notre Dame won nine games, every game played. ‘The Army team, outside of one lapse, coupled with a great individual run by Jack Elder, had the edge over Notre Dame in their annual meeting. Yet this Army team did not win a single big game out of five starts against Harvard, Yale, Illinols, Notre Dame and Stanford. With no thought of comparative scores in mind, take this situation— Stanford was outplayed by Southern California; Southern California was outplayed by Notre Dame; Notre Dame was outplayed by the Army and the Army was massacred by Stanford. All of which is enough to prove that modern foot ball, from one Saturday to another, is about as uncertain as base ball. SHIRES DEFEATS SPOHRER BUT HE WANTED WILSON BOSTON, January 11 (#).—Arthur (The Great) Shires, has upset the pugilistic ambitions of Al Spohrer, Bos- ton Braves' catcher, but base ball rivalries still bother him. Winning a _four-round _technical knockout from Spohrer here last night for his fourth ring victory in five starts, the White Sox first baseman was dissatisfied. “I didn't want Al Spohrer. I wanted Hack Wilson.” He shouted at 18,000 fight fans after the decision. Spohrer was outclassed from the opening gong. e e CARNERA’S U. S. DEBUT SET FOR JANUARY 24 NEW YORK, January 11.—Primo Carnera’s American ring debut will be made against Big Boy Peterson, Mimnne- appolis heavyweight, in a 10-round bout at Madison Square Garden on January 24. This match for the giant Italian was approved yesterday by the State Athletic Commission acting on the ap- plication of Tom McArdle, Garden matchmaker. The commission imposed the condition that the scale of prices Sol Metzger, in care of this paper, and inclose a st=rmaped acKu=s=3d cavelope. for the occacion must range from.$1 to $5.74. e—Weich, 93.7. Strikes—Sumner, 7. High flat game—Donn, 91. Individual Averages. Nationals—Nichols, 82.1 . 93.1; Shugrue, nsburgh—Sumner.’ 86 , 83.10; Baird, 83.6; Nash. 73.1, mb, 17.20; Bruen, Delnegro, 80.7; Paroni, 8030, Brosnahan, 74.1; ; Daniel, 84.17 do 18" Faaeett, " 'iossburg, 77.19: " Buiide van, ST B ildebrand, Finnegan, Transportation Building League. A. R. A. successfully defended its title as leaders this week by taking two out of three games from the Ground Hogs, which set them back a peg or_two in the Trans] tion Building Bowling League. The Sparks in their own win- ning way snatched two from Fidelity & Casualty, strengthening their bid for first place. The race for the top grew tighter when Burecs took two from the Onetoates and Eastman Dillon was trimming the Go-Getters for all three games, Strunk of Burec's was high man this week with a 136 game. Team Stan Peerless_Newco Colburn, 62.8; Sim Donn, _80; .9; Owen, Travelers—Bovd. Jacksor 77.30; 6711 61 Hi 13. .. Won. 26 22 2 Burecs i Ground Higes 21 ion’ tters EAST WASHINGTON - CHURCH LEAGUE. Team Standl Wit . 237 14 . 132 1 ] W, Anacostia M.E. 27 Lincoln Road. 27 9 20 21 30 21 21 22 23 el [hriiis B Records. individual average—Hughes, 109. individual game—Rudy Jarman. i63. individual set—Rudy Jarman, 434. individual spares—W. Koontz (An costial, 119, High' individual strikes—Weber, 2 High team game—Douslas No. 1. High team set—Douglas No. 2, Douglas No. 2 held its five-game lead over the second place tef inning two out of three from Waugh. Hall of the winners led both teams with his 340 set and tied up with F. Ricker of Ana- costia M. E. with 141 for the high game of the week. Douglas No. 1 moved into second place by taking all three from the strong Keller team. Chester Lilley of Douglas hung up the high set of the ‘week, getting 357, with Souder, a team- mate, shooting 331 and Phil Appel, also of the champions, getting a 137 game. NlnthNNo.ll' th'rew the hooks into In- gram No. 1 for two games, with Charl Hughes doing the best work with a 1:; same | ..lnd 345 set, rley’s set aiso put him out front in high individual averages. Donald Forney shot a 336 set for the Ninth Streeters, while Charley Stephenson’s 339 was_high for Ingram. Herscheid with a 359 set led the Fifth Baptist team in three wins over Centennial, j which put the Pifth Baptist boys right up among the leaders. ‘The Fifth boys have been coming along strong and have won 22 out of the last 27 games. United Brethren, with E. Furr doing the best work with @ 331 set, took all three from Lincoln Road. The latter team had the best pin spiller, however, in A. Marton, who knocked them over for a 131 game and 344 set. Besides his 141 game, F. Ricker shot a 341 set for Anacostia in its triple win over Eastern Presbyterian. Second Baptist won two close ones from Epworth, taking the second win in the last box on a strike by Herb Reed. Herb rolled a 339 set, while Loule Hawley of Epworth shot a like set for, his team. Marggraf, an anchor man on Ingram No. 2, duplicated Herb Reed's feat when he struck in his box on the roll-off of a tie with Brookland Baptist, and was the main factor in the other game won by his team. LADIES DISTRICT LEAGUE. Team Standing. w. Recreation | Gon¥. i nv. Ha Meyer Davis Sivs With holiday tournaments and cele- brations a thing of the t, fair pin maulers in the Ladies District League have resumed battling. | | King Pin was the only one of the | lcading quints to start the new year with a clean sweep, taking all three {rom Queen Pin, while Recreation lost one to Bill Wood, Arcadia dropped one to Convention Hall and John Blick | kept pace with a 2-game win over Meyer Davis. Capt. Lucy Owen shot a brilliant string of 102, 111 and 127 for a total of 340 to materially aid the John Blick girls in their win over Meyer Davis. Lucy's 127, coupled with a splendid 129 by Helen Whitbeck in the final clash, enabled the team to roll up a formid- able 544 total. May Perry accounted for the Meyer Davis girls’ lone win with a neat 119 in her second effort. Capt. Lucile Preble and her King Pinners stepped out and smacked the maples for a new high game mark in the first tilt with Queen Pin. The team shot a nifty 557 to top the old mark held by Recreation by 14 pins. Pauline Ferd and Millle Russell with 122 each were mainly responsible for the record game. Pauline shot high set, getting 3, while Lucile contributed 311. Row- ena Shephard was best for the losers, tctaling 308, with high game at 113. Rena Y.gvy“vut Recreation over for WITH THE BOWLERS the odd e from Bill Wood. Rena hit for 332, having two nice singles cf 126 and 118. Irene Mischou was the heavy counter for Arcadia in its 2-game win over Convention Hall. Irene shot 325, her counts being 106, 109 and 110. Temple took two from Silver Spring, with Blanche Wootton of the Icsers copping the individual honors. Blanche shot 324, a heavy 127 in the final clash enabling the suburbanites to score a win. Betty Dugan has been doing well for 326 giving her average a nice boost. AUDIT REVIEW LEAGUE. Team Standing. Section D-2. w. Oil & Mining... Secti -1.... 23 16 Tech. Stafl 3 ection D-3. 1 & Mining, 545; Sec- 1, 345, High team ‘set—Technical Staff No. 1, 1,500. |High individual game—Mooney (Ahnex No. L 145, Hieh individual set—Middlekauff (Special Adjustment i averages—Budjako (Sec- : Nefl (Technical Staft No. Lewis (Executives No. SANICO LEAGUE. Brewe, % s . ngs . Diehls 27 9 e Fagans . Rhodes Smiths Records. High team game—_Diehls. 598. High team set—Diehls, 1.685. High individual game—Bradford rs). 147, and Diehl (Diehls). 147. High individual set—Bradford (Brewers), High average—Pratt (Diehls), 111 ©ODD FELLOWS' LEAGUE. SECTION A. (Brew- L 9 Mt. Nebo.. Washington Mt. Rainie Phoenix Potomac Easte Mt Fleasani Harmony Colum Friendship Amity No. High team game—. 12 HiER team Sl Labigaon. Lot High individual game—Laus} 157, High individual set—R. Bladen, 306. nk Donaldson, 115, nd P. Ellett, 25. Flat game—O Neall, 96. Average—P. Ellett, 1151, Amity No. 1 and Golden Rule kept their slates clean at the expense of Falls Church and Loyalty and still are deadlocked for the lead in Section B. Frank Donaldson for Amity No. 1 con- tinued his excellent bowling, totaling 381 for set and 138 for high game, both being the best of the week. Incidentally, he increased his average o over the 114 mark to take second place among the individuals. Pumphrey featured the Golden Rule-Loyalty match, securing a total of 357 for his set, which materially aided his team to win. Mount Pleasant took the odd from Phoenix, Harmony won two from Can- ton and Columbia won the set from Po- tomac. Mossburg was in great form for Harmony, totaling 341. N. Groff rolled well for Mt. Pleasant. Mt. Nebo threw a bombshell into the Eastern ranks by defeating the leaders’ two games. Luther Strobel set the pace for the camp boys, while Dobbins performed in good style for Eastarn. Central won the odd game from Bea- con. Pope and Dowell performed well for Beacon and Viehmeyer and Nash led the Central attack. After winning three from Federal City, Langdon rolled off a postponed set with Falls Church and the latter sprung quite a surprise by taking the strong Langdon outfit into camp for two games. Falls Church had its best total of the 38 | season, led by Fisher, who totaled 334. Roy Bladen knocked over 357 maples for Langdon. Arlington and Mount Rainier won 2 to 1 victories from Friendship and Fred D. Stuart. |3 e HERS HIER spares- womersiey (i R Srikes—Daying (W, Lok hweinhart-(W. L. & T. No. 1), 21, At the conclusion of the first half of the series in the Bankers' League, Riggs National is seen to have estab- lished a commanding lead, with the Washington Loan & Trust No. 1 and American Security & Trust No. 1 stag- ing a close fight for the runner-up position. In a closely contested match, Per- petual Building won the odd game from the W. B. Hibbs Co. W. Aiken rolled well for the winners. ”Gez;g‘e B(t:hv;elzn:a.llt (W. L. & T. No. , wi set of and high game of 136, won both weekly prlm:.‘ it COUNTY LE. i Section 1. e W.L 18 24 18 24 16 26 15 27 11032 & Arcad Chilium 16 Section Gretta Soux o Records. &h average_w. 115 Hatloran ‘(Gompany B, 118,07 P (Sioux-Company F match tomorrow night postponed.) e Pig Colluh!:n Berwyn .. w. Ww. 8. 8 D of. Eennobeotis... 2 Gy Clinton ... Glendale . . Joyce (W. 8. 8. D. Pennobscotts won three from W. 6. S. D. Office, leaving the office ‘two :l;m ahead. ¢ begin 'omorrow’s match — Gle; Pennobscotts, 9 o'clock. s PRINCE GEORGES COUN' 3 [ > gseneer Co-eds Dixie Pi Chillium Lucky Str High aver: T .0 23 17 age—C. Hiser (Co-eds), 93. Tuesday's game—Lucky Strike v Berwyn, 8 o'clock. iy WASHINGTON LADIES' LEAGUE. that was never more true than what hap- pened in that memorable struggle be- tween the Beeques and Columbians at the Coliseum last Tuesday night. If ever an individual or team was glorious in defeat Capt. Rena Levy and her game bunch of pinners are entitled to plenty of glory even though they fell before the wicked onslaught of those record-smashing Beeques. To roll up counts of 527, 515 and 511 and not win a game—it has never happened before in a girls' league. Lorraine Gulli gets credit for two out of three season's records establishe the Beeques, her 148 set being new morke, he team 1 e Temple lately, a set of 314 and one of | CENTER PLAY NOT LIKED AT PRESENT |May Elevate Baskets tc Change Game—Trials of New Plans Urged. BY FORREST C. “PHOG” ALLEN. ERHAPS the next bit of im- portant extirpation for the rules surgeons of basket ball will be the elimination, or modification of the center jump or tip-off play. The National Basket Ball Coaches’ Association has made definite recom- mendations to the joint basket ball rules committee regarding this important feature. Already high school, college and uni- versity teams have tried out these cen- ter-play changes in regular games and reports coming in indicate their enthu- siasm for a change from the old rule. However, tall rangy and versatile basket ball players will always be at a pre- mium. I predict that within one or two years baskets will be raised to a height of 11 or 12 feet instead of 10 feet—the pres- ent height. The coaches agreed that new plans should be tried in practice and match games during the coming season and that reports be submitted to the com- mittee. It suggested two major plans as a basis for trial. Suggestion No. 1. 1. Eliminate the center jump. 2. Toss a coin for possession of ball out of bounds. 3. The winner is given ball on de- fensive end line, out of bounds, within 9 feet of basket on either side. 4. Play then begins within 5 seconds ;:u in the present rule on out-of-bounds 5. On all field or foul goal baskets the official secures ball and gives it to a member of the side scored upon, out of bounds, under the opponents’ goal, or defensive end line. 6. In case of double fouls or technical fouls it is suggested the official desig- nate the two players who will jump for ball at center. 7. It is thought this scheme may aid in curbing stalling, by giving the ball to the team that is scored upon. Suggestion No. 2. 1. Draw two circles on either side of the present center circle. 2. The player who is to put the ball (r.xnglhy stands in the circle which is 1 est from his basket, with his own team behind him. 3. The other team must remain be- hl:ld the other circle until referee calls “play.” 4. The player in the circle must put the ball in play by.passing to a team- mate promptly after the referee gives the signal to start play. Still another suggestion retains the jump at center, but zones the other four men away from center. This last suggestion comes from men who have had much experience with the professional game basket ball. Blocking is emphasized in the profes- game. D. C. GIRLS TO BOWL MEN IN ALEXANDRIA ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 11.— Lorraine Gulli's Washington All-Stars, a brilllant women's bowling team, will meet & men's team here tonight at 8 o'clock on the Health Center bowling alley drives. While the Alexandria combinati ’x:'ote ;‘::c \‘)euat. :,hl:ifimlld be mundlh:}: i’t o give a good account itself against the fair bowlers. T Miss Gulli's line-up will include her- self, Elsie Fisher, Peggy Babcock, Mar- garet Leamon and Pauline Ford. The locals will be selected from Hugh %:rr:h, 133% Blr(mm Harvey Westbrook, ce Wolf, Keith W. 1 and Ciiarles White, " DIk Green Woodward School of Washi which has won three of its five l::mw:a' this year, will battle Alexandria High basketers here ionllght at 8:30 o'clock innt‘he Armourny;ull{fl a . W at 7:30, the Alexlg rllh}llchh';llll'].!“‘l‘lfi play the Als A. C. of Washington, Episcopal High was to open its - ket ball season here today ?ne a con!:;t with Swavely School of Manassas, Va., at !‘p Zlock. pal athletic authorities - nounced yesterday that they h:'v‘e agreed to play Alexandria High January 22 in the Armory Hall. It will be the first time Episcopal has played here in many years in any branch of sport. Episcopal is regarded as a local school, despite the fact that it lies in Fairfax County just over of the city, the corporate limits St. Mary's Celtics left here tod: Richmond, Va., where they will Dl:g" l’lf\’; fifil;flnznd Blll!rs tonight and the Coun- . C., formerly the Jewish Community Center, mnR:‘:rr;?:.nd TO FIGHT JANUARY 24 BOSTON, January 11 (#)—Jimi Maloney, Boston huvyweig}m' and A mand Emanuel, San Francisco's bat- tling attorney, have been matched for a 10-round clash A Siune gan e 5 Bosion Garden hung up a new high set total wi 1525, Only two players fell under t'lt-nl: noflnk‘ Capt. Quaites getting 288 and Margaret Leaman 279. The other totals were Catherine Quigley, 350; Pauline Bradburn, 321; Bertha Greevy, 3 eney, 307, a-c tk, 300. 23T Sac ety ‘apt. Helena Kohler flashe neat pinning to help her Nats eflkem the odd game from Daughters of Isabella. Shooting games of 97, 130 and 107, she had a total of 334. Catherine Moriarty accounted for the Daughters’ lene win with a double-header in the last two Lr‘-m:: &{ the t}rs! tilt, picking up 39 ns e two frames ai °°‘lll""|;~° e nd sending her uclle Preble rolled brilllantly for Commercials, getting counts of llg, 10; and 113, for a total of 333. Despite her good work the team dropped the odd game to Shamrocks. Mad eline Burke was best for the winners with a total L | for the set of 304. Hilltoppers grabbed three from Billles team. Alice McQuinn and Mary Thomp- son were high with 300 each, high game counts being 114 and 117, respectively. 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