Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1930, Page 24

SPORTS. South Likes Its Foot Ball Coaches : Central Next Faces Onl FEW NEW TUTORS FOR DIXIE SOUADS Sewanee to Change—Plan Post-Season Tilt. BY H. C. BYRD. IRTUALLY no changes in| gridiron coaching systems in Southern colleges and universities are to take place this year. With two or three exceptions, every foot ball squad when it goes on the field next‘ September will do so under direc- | tion of the same men who han-| dled the reins in 1929. About | the only exceptions to this arel Georgetown, Alabama, Polytech- nic Institute and possibly Se- wanee. Alabama Poly, better known in the far South as Auburn, switched horses Tight in midstream last Fall, changing coaches when the season still had three or four weeks to go. It was rather & coincidence that Sewanee did about the same thing, Dr. Bennett, athietic di- rector, taking charge about two weeks before the final game. Georgetown was compelled to make a change be- cause Lou Little resigned to accept the | job as head coach at Columbia. Georgetown, of course, has Tom Mills, who comes from Notre Dame, where he has been handling the freshman squad and doing most of the scouting. Many who know Mills intimately do not hesi- tate to state unreservedly that he will make a good man for the local uni- | versity and turn out winning foot ball teams, which seems to be what most universities want. Mills also is confi- dent that he can do a good job while here, and he plans to get started with foot ball soon after February 1. Auburn for some time has had rough going with its foot ball, for one reason or another. For 17 years Mike Dona- hoe kept the Plainsmen among the leaders in the South, but during the last couple of years or so that he was at Auburn di¢ not do so well. Then Donahoe left, but Auburn, since his Jeaving, instead of doing better, has not done as well. Until last Fall Mike Bennett was head foot ball coach as well as ath- letic director at Sewanee. He gave up coaching, but was compelled to go back to it two weeks before the season ended. It has not yet been made known wheth- er Bennett will coach the eleven next Fall. Sewanee could not do any better than have him take up the task again, as without any doubt he is one of the best men in the country. It seems that those schools in the South that have developed efficient sys- tems and kept them are the ones that stand in the forefront of gridiron ac- tivities. Down in the far South Van- derbilt, Georgia Tech and Alabama have generally been leading the pro- cession, and each has a man at the helm who has been in-charge for many ;"!:g Alexandria at Georgia Tech, become a part of their institutions and are about as near fixtures as men can be in such jobs. It probably is not a coincidence, either, that Collins, down at North Carolina, after two years of mediocre records and one year of fair attain- ment, seems to have put North Carolina in a fair way of being one of the hard nuts of the South to crack. With the possible exception of Tennessee, North Carolina probably had the best eleven in the South. A mediocre coach, given time to work out plans for building up an organiza- tion, will do far better than even a brilliant coach who does not get that opportunity. And it seems that most in- stitutions are beginning to take that view of if. At least there are not so many changes, and a coach consequent- ly has a better chance of holding his Jjob, which leaves one to draw only one| conclusion. A movement is on foot in the Par Bouth to stage an annual post-season foot ball game that will feature an orange blossom festival, much along the same lines as the game at Pasadena features the Tournament of Roses. It is understood that the idea originated at the University of Florida. It was brought up at the conference meeting this year, but the plan had not ma- tured ugh to warrant favorable ac- tion, apparently. However, if Florida pushes the proposition it probably will ut it across. Such a wind-up for foot 1l in the South would work out suc- cessfully. Jimmie Driver, athletic director at University of Virginia and chairman of the boxing committee of the Southern Conference, expects the annual boxing tournament at Charlottesville, to be held under the auspices of the Univer- sity of Virginia, to be the best since the tournament was begun. Driver is au- thority for the statement that he finds more interest than usual, and that the tournament not only will have more en- trants, but entrants of a higher caliber. Incidentally, it might be mentioned that boxing is one of the big Winter sports at Virginia, and that exceptional crowds attend the matches. University of Oregon gets a good coach in Spears and the University of Minnesota loses one. Spears has done a good job wherever he has been, and probably with the fine material siid to be at Oregon will spring some surprises in Pacific Coast foot ball next season. At Dartmouth, where he played, Spears also coached successfully. Then at West Virginia University he had some exceptional teams, and since he has been at Minnesota has had a strong cleven every yeay. Spears is a high-type fellow, has a good personality and is the kind of chap who will make ths best of what he has no matter where he works. RESULTS AND SCHEDULE OF GIRLS’ COURT LEAGUE In Girls' Recreation League games the Eaglets defeated Capital A. C.. 24-18; Epiphany trimmed Delta Phi Sigma, 40-31; the Basketeers won from Strayer's, 24-15, and the Hockey Club defeated St. Paul's, 26-20. This week’s schedule follows: Tonight—Epiphany vs. Eaglets Business High, 7:30 o'clock. Tomorrow night—Capitals vs. Delta Phi Sigma at Wilson Normal, 8 o'clock; Strayer's vs. Hockey Club at Holton Arms, 8:30 o'clock. Thursday—St. Paul's vs. Basketeers at St. Paul's, 8 o'clcok. BASKET BALL QUINTETS LOOKING FOR CONTESTS Clover Juniors of Alexandria are cking basket ball games with teams ‘fi their class. Call Manager Newton at Alexandria 1155. Games with unlimited class fives with are sought by the Rialto Club. s{lni‘sBen Mensh at Columbia 0341 be- tween 9 and 3 o'clock. Meridian basketers are casting about for games with 130-pound wm for ‘Tuesday and Friday nights. 1 Man- ‘ager Jarvis at Columbia 5462, Meridian at | six of the Locusts’ THE_EVENING SOCCER PILOT PROTESTS GAME PLAYED IN SNOW Eddie Bruce, manager of the Wash. ington Soccer Club, was confident to- day of favorable action on his pro- test of a 9-0 victory scored over his team yesterday in Baltimore by the Locust” Point Rangers in the National Amateur Cup competition. Bruce’s protest was sent to headquar- ters at Cleveland. He pointed cut that goals were scored through infringements within the pen- alty area which could not be discerned after the first six minutes of play due to four inches of snow; also that the foul lines were drawn zigzag with a stick th h the snow. SPRINT DISPUTE G0OD FOR WINTER GABFEST NEW YORK, January 20 (#).—The Eact will not see Jack Elder of Notre Dame in track competition again this year, but it can have the pleasure of talking over his disputed race with Karl ‘Wildermuth, Georgetown flash, for some weeks to come. Elder, whose run the Jength of the field for the touchdown that enabled Notre Dame to beat the Army in No- vember still is fresh in the minds of sports followers, was adjudged the win- ner in a great 75-yard sprint against ‘Wildermuth and others at the Brooklyn College meet here Saturday ri:ht, but many newspaper observers as well as spectators at the meet thought Wilder- muth had won. So close was the finish that the two judges charged with the task of pick- ing the winner split even in their ver- , one voting for Elder and the other for Wildermuth. Two other judges who were to decide second place also split, one believing Elder was a runner-up and the other picking the Georgetown fiash as the also-ran. The chief judge settled the argument by casting the deciding ballot for Elder. JEWISH CENTER QUINTET BEATS FAST RICHMONDS Jewish Community Center tossers today are boasting their ninth straight win of the season. Last night the Center boys routed the Richmond, Va. Councilors, 44 to 18, on the Center floor. It was a sweet victory for J. C. C. as the Richmond lads are lively rivals. Prior to meeting the Center team the Richmond basketers had defeated St. Mary's Celtics in an afternoon game at Alexandria. Hirsch, Singman and Abramson were heaviest scorers for J. C. C., while King was high man for the Councilors. BOYS' BOUTS 1_)—]':>I.;YED Due to midyear school examinations, the boxing bouts schedul~d for January 31 at the Boys' Club have been post- poned until February 7.. Ollie Dryser 'l'lcns been elected captain of the club am. BEHEMOTHS WRESTLE. Bull Martin, 220-pounder, and Abe Kaplan, weight, 212, will have it out in a return wrestling match Thursday night at the Strand. In a previous bout they went 30 minutes to a draw. Joe Turner and Georgie Taylor will meet in another bout. EFORE taking up Babe Ruth'’ B b etter o E tter and one of the great figures of the game. $2,000 a year,” he said, 3 3 in the same fix. wouldn’t meet mine, so I decided to ju for the stupendous salary—for that day and 000 annual pay. ‘They finally met Ruth’s minimum demand, with ex- hibition games left out, is ten times that amount. And the Babe can show where he has been drawing in even more through the gate, Ruth and 1930. QTARTING as far back as 1919, Ruth has led the home-run procession every year, with one exception. That year he was either sick or suspended too many weeks to have much of a chance. Last Spring he got away to a slow start and was again knocked out by injuries or shickness at various stages, but he still had enough left to over- take and pass his leading rivals down the stretch. This season he expects to report in much better shape than he was a year ago. He looks to be in better condition, if looks go for anything. Ruth started his big league career sixteen years ago. He is still seven years younger than Honus Wagner was when he retired, and about six years younger than Cobb was when the Georgia Grost decided to turn in his spiked shoes. He should have at least three good years left, and if he isn't injured or stricken down again through sickness he is a good bet to feed his dust once more to the Kleins and Otts and ‘Wilsons. Natural Hitting Skill. N addition to his bulk and physical strength, permitting him to swing a much larger and heavier bat with even greater ease than others know with lighter implements, Ruth has the fundamentals of timing and true swing- ing. And this is something few have. He knows what balance means and he knows how his hands and arms must operate through the hitting swing in relation to his body. The Babe has made a close study of these funda- mentals. He told me once that he has studied Joe Jackson's swing at tHe plate and had adopted it with certain vari- ations of his own that gave him more body leverage and better body balance. Fundamentals can carry an athlete a long way, even when he has passed the elastic’ stages of younger years. They mean that he still has a firm foundaticn to work from and that he can return to first principles, to cer- tain fixed laws of form when a slump comes on. Few have this opportunity, because so few have the fundamentals. They think they have, but in too many cases they are wrong over any consistent stretch of play. Ruth takes a stance at the plate that permits him to swing the bat freely and smoothly and hit against his right side, just as the aver- age good right-handed golfer hits against his left side. The Babe has a great eye, quick re- flexes, natural timing and tremendous power under full control. I have seen him fooled and caught off balance and yet after choking his swing hit one out of the park. That type of ball Dh%';r isn't ready to be retired at 36 or 37. Ruth may begin to lose more of his outfield speed and he may also begin to pick ug a kink here and there in one of the greatest arms that ever threw a base ball, but the old batting eye is one of the last things to go. If he can play out most of the 1930 schedule he should be good for fifly home runs this season, especially if he can get away to a good Spring start players are to meet tonight at 7:30 g’elw:t at the Boys' Club. in better Spring weather than the last two years have shown. THE SPORTLIGHT, BY GRANTLAND RICE. CHAMPIONS AND THEIR CHANCES FOR 1930. No. 4—Babe Ruth. is an interesting angle in connection with his bid for a $100,- Over 25 years ago I asked Larry Lajole how it was that he jump Philadelphia for Cleveland. Lajole was then a “and held out for $2,500. Ed Delehanty was NG ARD TOPPED BY CARNERA DEBUT Italian Giant Makes Bow in New York Friday—Big Program for Week. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 20—Primo N are distributed over a frai 80 inches high, makes his round bout against Big Boy Peterson of Minneapolis at Madison Square gural appearance has stolen much of | the general interest that otherwise| shows at Chicago, Philadelphia, Bos- | | ton and Cleveland. of the Welterweights and Bat Battalino, | featherweight title holder, swing into | bouts. { Bouts on the national schedule in- Tonight—At, Arena, | Bat Battalino, Hartford, vs. Lew Massey, | Spain, vs. Young Terry, Trenton, N.J., | middleweights, and Jackie Pilkington, | weights, each 10 rounds. At New York, St. Nicholas Arena, Tommy Grogan, lightweights, 10 rounds. At Cleveland, | Johnny Risko, Cleveland, vs. Ricardo Freeman, Erfe, Pa. vs. Paul Pirrone, | | Cleveland, welterweights, and Jack Cleveland, heavyweights, each 10 | rounds, and Freddy Fitzgerald, Youngs- | fornia, welterweights, eight rounds. Tucsday—At New York, Broadway | Bill Hartwell, Kansas City, heavy- weights, 10 rounds; at Los Angeles, Peregrima, Los Angeles, middleweights, 10 rounds; at Denver, Young Firpo, heavyweights, 10 rounds. | Wednesday—At Cincinnati, Jimmy Covington, Ky., light heavyweights, 10 rounds. | Madison | Square Garden, Larry Johnson, Chicago Negro, vs. Fred Lenhart, ‘Spokane, North Carolina, vs. Ora Buck Weaver, Kansas, heavywelghts, each 10 rounds; Armand ' Emanuel, San _Francisco, heavyweights, 10 rounds; at Chicago Vince Dundee, Baltimore, welterweights, 10 rounds; at Toledo, Babe Keller, bantamweights, 10 rounds: at San Francisco, Dave Shade, New York, vs. weights, 10 inds; at Hollywood, Homer Sheridarf, Omaha, vs. Joe Ditto, Carnera, whose 285 pounds American fistic debut this week in a 10- Garden Friday night. Carnera’s inau might have been devoted to the weekly | Two champions, Jackle Fields, king | action during the week in non-titular clude. | Philacelphia Philadelphia, featheweights; Alf Ros, | New York, vs. Ernie Caesar, light-| Omaha, vs. Billy McMahon, New York, | Bertazzolo, Italy, heavyweights; Tommy | Gagnon, 'Boston, vs. Frankle Simms, | town, Ohlo, vs. Jimmy Evans, Cali- Arena, Arthur De Kuh, Italy, vs. B Bert Colima, Los Angeles, vs. Jose Louisville, ' vs George '~ Monley, ~ light Mahoney, Chicago, vs. Joe Anderson, Friday—At New York, Wash., lightweights, and Add Warren, at_Boston, Jimmy Maloney, Boston, vs. Stadium, Jackie Pields, Los Angeles, vs. Toledo, vs. K. O. Morgan, Toledo, Joe Roche, San Francisco, middle- Angeles, middleweights 10 rounds. ’s home run outlook for 1930 there “I was getting Del's demand for a raise, but they mp.” Lajoie went to Cleveland time—of $8,500 a year. BOYS’ CLUB TOSSERS CAGE MANY THROWS ‘These Boys’ Club Basket Ball League Yyoungsters can really drop 'em in. Rec- ords show that the boys ean shoot both from scrimmage and the foul line. Harry Cole of the Celtics is the lead- ing shot in the unlimited loop so far as floor goals are concerned. He has scored 19 two-pointers. Anthony Pa- nella of the same team leads in foul tossing, having made eight of nine tries. Top scorers in the other classes fol- Luxe, 28 floor goals; Taylor, Northerns, 8 of 10 foul goals. 130-pound class — Willlam Courtney, Good Shepherds, 21 floor goals; J. Bay- liss, Good Shepherds, 6 of 7 foul goals. 115-pound class—Levine, Arcadians, 16 floor goals and 6 of 9 foul goals. 100-pound class—Parkhill, St. Mar- tin’s, 25 floor goals; E. Gates, Neighbor- hood House, 8 of 9 foul goals. Gates llso, )hlx scored his team’s only floor | goal 85-pound class—C. Giovanetti, Arca- dians, 23 floor goals; S. Silverstein, Ar- | cadians, 4 of 4 foul goals. INDIANA TOUGH FOE FOR CO-CHAMPIONS By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 20.—Michigan, share-holder of the 1929 Western Con- ference championship, again is in quest | of titular honors. | With a record of one victory and two defeats, the Wolverines face Indiana at Ann Arbor tonight—a huge task. After a poor early season showing, the Hooslers found_their stride and today were tied with Purdue for the lead with two triumphs and no defeats. Indiana has decisively defeated Chicago and Northwestern, while Michigan has de- feated Minnesota and lost to Purdue and Illinois. The Wolverines have three regulars from last season’s iron man team— Truskowski, Chapman and Orwig—but Coach George Veenker has had little success in locating a replacement for Dannie Rose, star running guard of | the co-champlonship five. Indiana will bank on its dead-eye trio of McCracken, Zeller and Veller, who starred in the Hoosiers pair of conference victorles, Wisconsin faces Chicago at Madison tonight and should prove 0o strong for the crippled Maroons. The feature contest of the week’s schedule promises to show up at Bloomington Thursday night when Wiscensin tackles Indiana. g rin il WITH POLLENGER’S GOAL A goal from scrimmage by Milton Pollenger in the final seconds enabled Ambassador basketers to conquer the Ploneer quint, 13 low: 145-pound class — Willis Fisher, De | °PS Results of othe: ymes follow: Knights of Columbus, 40; Montrose, 24. Aladdins, 40; Moseans, 28, Eastern Preps, 26; Ellicott City, 18, STAR, WASHINGTON I MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1930. HE’D LEAD THE PACK AND HE WASN'T FOOLIN’ GEORGIE FRIEND Of the Northeast Temple team predicted he would shoot better than 650 i the second block of the Howard Campbell sweepstakes and enter the final set next Saturday night at the big King Pin either on top or close to it. He rolled 657 at Convention Hall and took the lead, with two pins margin over Paul Harrison, a teammate. > SPORTS. [HOLMAN GETS $12,000 TO PLAY WITH BRUINS CHICAGO, January 20 ().—Nat Hol- man, ranked as the outstanding pro- ional basket ball player of the coun- iry, will be in & Chicago Bruin uniform Wednesday night against the Brooklyn Visitations, Holman, former member of the New York Celtics, was signed yesterday by Manager George Halas to @ contract said to call for $12,000 a year, a record pro basket ball salary. 'SCHOLASTIC SPORTS | PROGRAM FOR WEEK | TODAY. Central vs. St. John's, at St. John's, 3:30 p.m. | 'Emerson vs. | Freshmen, at Geo! | George Washington e Washington, 8 p.m. | Shenandoah Valley Academy vs. St. | Albans, at St. Albans, 3:30 p.m. | Eastern vs. Hyattsville High, at Hy- attesville, 3:15 p.m. Episcopal Lightweights vs. Gonzaga Lightweights, at Gonzaga, 3:30 p.m. TOMORROW. Eastern vs. Tech, Central vs. Wests ern, public_high school championship | games, Tech gym. First game, Eastern Vs, Tech, 3:45 p.m. Gonzaga vs. Business, 3:30 p.m. | “"Ben Franklin vs. Devitt, at Langley Junior High. |* Landon vs. Woodward, at Central . C. A, . John's_vs. Predericksburg Ool- legians , at Fredericksburg, Va. Friends vs. Episcopal, at Episcopal (Prep School Lightweight League game). ‘Woodward Juniors vs. Rockville High, at Rockville, WEDNESDAY. Emerson va. Eastern, at Eastern. Ben Franklin vs. Georgetown Fresh- men, at Tech gym (preliminary to G. U. Varsity-Johns Hopkins game). Business vs. Maryland Freshmen, at College Park. Friends vs. St. Albans, at St. Albans. Georgetown Prep vs. Landon, at Epiphany Church gym. THURSDAY. Catholic Unlversity vs. Eastern, at | Bastern. | _Ben Franklin vs. George Washington Freshmen, at George Washington. FRIDAY. Central vs. Eastern, Business vs. ‘Tech, public high ‘school championship games, Tech gym. First game, Central vs. Eastern, 3:45 p.m. Landon vs. Priends, at Friends. Leonard Hall vs, St. Albans, at St. Albans. Western vs. Maryland Freshmen, at College Park. Gonzaga Vs, Garrett Park. Devitt vs. Fredericksburg Collegians, | at Fredericksburg, Va. Catonsville High vs. Hyattsville High, at National Guard Armory, Hyattsville. SATURDAY. St. John's vs. Georgetown Freshmen, at Business, Georgetown Prep, at Taking It on the Chin! BY W. L. “YOUNG” STRIBLING. Vi ED” HERRING hit me the hardest blow I ever got, be- | fore a hometown crowd in| Macon, Ga. “Red” and I had boxed a 10-round | draw before. In those days Herring was | the big noise in the South. He had fought Benny Leonard a few years before, stick- ing around for six rounds before Ben- ny located his chin. “Red” was a shrewd baby in the ring, and a creck show- man to boot. Somewhere about the"ml%il; of l‘lmé arty “Red” pulle g right from behind his back and threw it at me. It caught me square on_the jaw. Everything iurned black. I had been stung before in some of my fights, but this time, they told me, I was ready to be knocked out, I did some funny things standing up. Generally | the sound of a bell is just a signal to begin or stop fighting. To me the gong sounded as it does to hungry loggers in a lumber camp at chow time. It took me a round and a half to get over “Red’s” surprise. Then the fog lifted, and, believe me, I kept my eyes n. In the eight I floored “Red” for eight, and I sure enjoyed the rest. “Red” was tired in the tenth. To be honest, I was all out of steam myself. As I made for my corner after it was over and I had won, Pa, who always acts as my adviser, started a lecture. “What in the world were you doing up there letting him hit you with rights and lefts?” he hurled at me. “Dad, I'd rather let ’em land them than make the effort to block,” I panted as I slumped on to the stool. (Next: Al Singer.) (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) OPERATION IS SMITTEN AS FIRST PLACE NEARS Operation lost a good chance to close in on_the leaders in the Southern Rail- way Clerks League. Capt. Dorsey's Pur- chasing No. 1 team was too strong and Operation had to fight for one game. Purchasing No. 2 handed the fast- traveling Disbursing team a jolt by tak- ing two games. These defeats dropped | Disbursing to a tie with Operation for third place. Construction seems to be the only |y team in the league that can take Audi- | tors into camp. This week they made a clean sweep with games of 530, 615, 520 fof & 1,665 set. Traffic and Law had & nip-and-tuck battle for three games, Traffic coming o|uv. with the odd game by just a few ns, P Jarman had high game, 133. Bracey had high set, 348, Construction had high game, 615, and high set of 1,665. Team Standing. W. L. W In Auditors .. 25 17 Purchas’s No. 1 23 20 Construction Disbursing . Operation . WORLD 18.2 BALKLINE TOURNEY IS IN BALANCE CHICAGO, January 20 (#).— The tournament committee of the National Billiard Association will meet Wednes- day to determine if a world champion- ship 18.2 balkline tournament will be held this year. 1 A little tourney was set for late this month in _Chicago, but mix-ups in schedules have upset plans for the| M meeting. A. A, A. MEETS TONIGHT. A regular monthly meeting of the board of managers of the District of Columbia Association of the Amateur Athletic Association will be held to- night at 8 o'clock at the Jewish Com- munity Center. FRENCH FIVE SCORES 24TH WIN OF SEASON Managing winning athletic combina- tions appears to be a habit with Bill Flester. Now it is the fast-stepping French basket ball team that the ge- nial Bill is plloting. Yesterday this quint chalked up its twenty-fourth win of the campaign, drubbing Union Printers, 40 to 15, in the preliminary to the game in which Skinker Eagles defeated Lithuanian-Americans, 48 to 37, in the Silver Spring Armory. French won 23 games inh a row be- fore bowing to Stewart Photographers | last Tuesday. J Having triumphed over ranking quints | of Baltimore, Skinker Eagles next Sun- day will meet a crack five from Rich- | mond in the Richmond Blues. _The game will be played in the Silver Spring Armory. 3 Scoring power displayed in the first half carried the Birds to victory over the - stalwart Lithuanian-Americans _of Overhead Hook Shot Always Good BY SOL METZGER. Let Dartmouth's three-man at- tack be driven into one of the cor- ners and it takes snappy defensive work by the opposition to prevent an attempt at the basket. As the defense charges the Green forward he will give a step and take a shot at the basket with a one-hand over- head hook shot, a shot that de- mands a great deal of practice to perfect. As he is being charged the player with the ball presents his left side Baltimore yesterday. At half time the Eagles had a 28-1§ edge. The visitors ;\;fi?olnwd them slightly in the final Joe Sweeney and Ralph Bennie were leaders on offense for the Fagles, scor- | ing 18 and 14 polnts, respectively. | Zdanis with 12 did the bulk of the visitors' basket-sniping. | BALTIMORE CHAMPS SEEKING GAMES HERE| Rellance basket ball club of Balti- more, which last Winter won the 145-pound Baltimore district title in the Amateur Athleslc Association tour- nament and was runner-up in final South Atlantic A. A, U. play, is after games with leading Washington 145- pound quints. Challenges are being received by Hyman Berman at 1404 Gough street, Baltimore. On the Alleys Tonight District League—Cornell's Lunch vs. Pet- worth, at Coliseum. National Capital League—Georgetown Rec- reation v Mt. Rainjer, at Lucky Strixe. King Pin Business 'Men's Leasue—King Pin No. 2_vs. Marceron-Colvin, Royal At- canum vs. E_B. Adams, at King Pin No, 2. North of ‘Washington Men's League- Sec- 1, Wolfe's Market vs. Buick Motor d Hendrick Washingion Ladies' Le; Wynnewood Park vs. Montgomery Play American Legion Auxiliary vs. Woodside, at | Siier Spuin Odd Fellows' League—Section A, Eastern vs._Harmony, Washingten vs. Columbia: Sec: tion B, Fa 1in City Ei va. s, armacy vs. Baumgarten. Life and ns vs. Night Owls, at Nortneast Tem- Eastern Star League—Bethany vs. Fidelity, ashington Centennial vs. Mizpah, Acacia Temple, Unity_vs Gavel, Mt. Pleasant vs. Joppa Lodve, Bethlehem vs. Brookland, at Lucky Strike, Capitol Hill League—W. R. E. vs. Navy Yard. at Capitol e-—Coberth vs. Patent At- rth, ¢ Pet B League—American Security No. 2 hington. District ty No. 1 vi asney reau Phi Casuaity Federal Reserve vs. Park. 15 Rikes, Pederal-Americen vs. Perpetual, at a, Arcad| hington Typog- orum, Big Print Press, Columbian ver- pital Paper, Typot ter, Model Printing vs. Stand Parker-Brawner vs. Natignal Gislon Press vs. Gibron Bros, rike. Merchants' League—Southern Dairies vs. Skinless Franks, Hugh Reilly 'vs. Stern, Thompson Bros. 'Furniture vs. E. W nslow vs. Burber & Ros ard Engraving, Publishing, At Lucky Federal League—P, O. Coll 3 Firemen, Augles vs. Veterans’ Bureau, Tre ury vs. Tnternal Revenue, Merchant Fieet vs. G._P. O, Interior vs. City Post Office, Post Office vs! Navy, Bureau of Investigation vs Treasury No. 2, Interstate vs. Public Build- ings and Parks. at Arcadia. League—Noland _ v . R 'and 8. 8. Cul Master Plumb- League—Wonder vs. eneral vs. Buttercrust, Rice vs. Homemade, Hostess 'vs. Holmes, Corby Vs Holzbeirlein vs. Holsum. at Convention Hal General Counsel League—Athletics vs. Ci dinals, Tigers vs. Reds. Browns v White’ Sox vs. Glan's, Nationels Yankees vs. Robins, Cubs Vs ndians. at Lucky Strik:. Econoinics Pl o0ps 3 o) Priits and_Vegetables, Grain ve Center Market, Farm Management vs. Standards, at | King Pin No. 1. oy Vs Pirates, ce Sox. lumbians, | Daughters of Isabella, to make it five | wins out of their last six games in the [ En%! Con e W =20 to his opponent and holds the bail extended in his right between his right hand and forearm. He throws it with a full arm swing directly over his head, letting 80 of the ball at the highest point of this swing. To get added height to the lob for the basket in order to insure that his opponent will not deflect the ball off its course the layer attempting the shot leaps as e shoots. Perfection in this dif- ficult shot was one of the reasons for Dartmouth leading last year's Eastern Intercollegiate League in scoring. COMMERCIAL GIRLS UPSET COLUMBIANS After struggling along for several weeks minus the services of two of their best players, Elaine Palmer and Marjorie Smith, the Commercials came out with a revamped line-up and scored a surprising victory over the strong Co* then grabbed three from Washington Ladles' League. Virginia Yarnell, who has taken the leadership of the quint, flashed against the Columbians. Shooting games of 106, 121 and 127, she established a new high-set mark for the season with a total of 354, and Is now topping both the major leagues for high-set honors. The team shot a splendid 559 in the second, with Virginia getting 121, Lu- cile Preble, 110; Effie Moore, 117; Ella Hildebrand, 101, and Margaret Miltner, 110. Margaret totaled 316, with 123 in her first effort. ‘The Billies also came through with & dope upset when, with a “dummy” in the line-up, they achieved a 2-1 vie- tory over ‘the Nats. With Blanche Woot ting for 323 and Mae Hart for 3; team shot its best game and set e season. Blanche smacked the maples for 125 in her second effort. while her teammate got two counts of 115 and 119. THe Nats shot 525 in the first tilt, to score their lone win. Anna Williams, with a nifty 125, and Doris Goodall, with 110, were the heavy scorers. Anna totaled 320. Margaret Miltner and Capt. Yarnell again starred for Commercials against Daughters of Isabella, Margaret shoot- ing a splendid 347, with counts of 98, 114 and 135. Her teammate had 315, with 122 as her best single. Ann Morrison accounted for Beeques® win over Shamrocks, when she came through with a string of five succes- sive spares in the final clash and co:lnled 126, with a total of 328 for the set. Team Standiog. W. L X 2§ 3 3 29 Besaues Columblans Hilltoppe: Commer 1 Nattonals . 38 14 Shamrocke: ! atieh, o 2022 Billle in Ryan gym (preliminary to G. U. Varsity-Mount St. Mary's game). Bliss vs. Donaldson School of Balti- more, at Silver Spring Armory, 8:30 p.m. Central vs. Navy Plebes, at Annap- olis. Emerson vs. Benedictine College, at | Richmond. | |REVENUE LEAGUE RACE IS CLOSEST IN HISTORY With more than one-half of the sea- son over the race continues to be the closest in the history of the Internal Revenue League. Miscellaneous and Annex No. 1 are tied for the lead with Special Advisory Cummittee but one game removed. Miscellaneous dropped two games to General Counsel, while Annex No. 1 took two from Special Adjustment to create a tle for the lead. Special Advisory Committee took two | from Personal Audit to remain but one " game in the rear. All of these games were closely contested with Special Ad- justment Committee winning the last game in the last two frames when | Mansuy and Strubinger both marked. |~ Consolidated continued on its win- ning way when it captured two out of three from Rules and Regulations. Team Standing. | w 3 2 it WL Miscellaneous Consolidated ... 23 28 Annex No. 1 Gen. Counsel | 20 28 | Spec. Ad. Com. 31 17 Personal Audit. 17 31 | Spec. “Adsust... 27 21 Rules & Reg.... 10 we | Records. | High team set—Miscellaneous, 1,663; An- | nex No. 1, 1,660. | “High team’ wine—Consolidated, 612; Mis- | cellaneons. 589. High individual set—Strubinger, 400; Han- Culli- rahan, 374 High individual gan, 149. ENGINEERS BEAT RIVALS FOR PHONE LEAGUE LEAD Engineers came through with a two- to-one win over the second-place Coin Box team to increase their lead to two games in the C. & P. Telephone League. Thomason of Engineers won the last game for the Engineers with a 128 game. Wolfe of Coin Box led both teams with a 350 set. After getting away to a good start with a 586 game the Equipment team faltered, and_Construction took the last two games. Breen and Daniels led the Equipment team with 361 and 350, re- spectively, while Jarman's 354 set was high for Construction. Hofman's 359 set put Western-Metro- politans over for a two-out-of-three de- cision over Western-Nation: . With Kennon shooting 347, Hyatts- ville District took the odd game from Wire Chiefs to increase their hold on fourth place. Western Division Office came through | with a clean-sweep victory over Western | Branch House. McPherson of Western | Division Office shot 144 in his last game. Team Standing. Teams. me—Brown, 151; West. et 8 | Ervin, Br_House 18 3% | Chupman, M1t Nationals 14 7 | Or Unconquered Foe - TACKLES WESTERN * UNT TOMORRDH |Eastern-Tech Clash Likely | to Eliminate One as Title Contender. i ENTRAL'S basket ball team, heading the public high cham. plonship race with three wins in as many starts, tomorrow will meet Western, the only quint the Blue has not yet faced and conquered, in the feature game of a title series | double-header in the Tech gym. West- | ern stands second in the parade with | two wins against one loss and will be striving for all it is worth to vanquish Central and gain a tie for first place with Coach Coggins’ boys. Eastern and Tech will clash at 3:45 o'clock in the first game of the after- noon. This is likely to prove a real struggle, as a loss for either will just about definitely remove it as a serious contender for the championship. Start Same Line-Ups. Central and Western are expected to start the same line-ups which took the floor for them Friday when the Blue drubbed_Tech, 45 to 25, and Western | topped Business, 29 to 28. This Cen- | tral team comprises Cross and De Lisio, forwards; Rice, center, and Lampson and Parkins, guards. Western's array includes Thompson and Buscher, for- wards; Freeman, center, and Paul Chatlen and Rabbitt, guards. Eastern doubtless will start against Tech with Ryan and Kane, forwards; Noonan, center, and Robey and Shirley, guards. This bunch looked sweet when the Lincoln Parkers roited Business last Wednesday, 56 to 27. Should his infected toe be O. K. again Lassise, who was out of Tech’s line-up in its losing game with Central Friday, is expected to, start at a guard instead of Wilson. MacCartee, guard; Johns, center, and Russell and Talburtt, for- wards, probably will make up the re- mainder of the Tech line-up. Business Plays Gonzaga. Aside from the public high title bat- tles the brightest court game listed to- morrow among District scholastics is that between Business and Gonzaga in the latter's gym at 3:30 o'clock. The Purple will be out to even scores for a 23-24 defeat suffered at the hands of the Stenogs recently in the I street school gym. Two other tilts are carded tomorrow among the schoolboys on Washington courts. Ben Franklin and Devitt are to meet in Langley Junior High gym, and Lan- don and Woodward at the Central Y. M. C. A. In other encounters St. John's will “| clash with Predericksburg Collegians at Fredericksburg, Va.; Woodward Juniors and Rockville High at Rockville, and Friends and Episcopal in a Prep School Lightweight League game on the Epis- copal floor. LATE GOAL DEFEATS ST. MARY’S CELTICS ALEXANDRIA, Va. January 20.— A beautiful one-hand shot by Krapin in the last f8w moments of play gave the Council Neighborhood House of Richmond, Va., a 28-to 26 victcry over the St. Mary's Celtics at Schuler's Hall in the first Sabbath basket ball game played in this city. The Celtics led throughout until Wolfe, Council center, went on a scorihg spree and counted three baskets in the third quarter. From then on the lead alternated until Krapin put the game in the bag in the waning moments, Krapin and Wolfe led the winners in scoring with 10 points each, while ‘Wilbur Wright counted a like number for the Celtics. It was the second time the two teams have met this season, with the Celtics defeating the Richmond quint identically the same score at Richmond. A third game will be played here some Sunday afternoon soon. The Celtics are anxious to list & game for tomorrow night at Schuler's Hall. Teams interested may telephone Manager Robert McDonald at Alexan- dria 2256 after 4:30 p.m. today. Alexandria All-Stars, composed of Whitestone's Store and Knight's Store Five players, were extended to win from the Clover A. C, 29 to 26, a prelimi- nary of the St. Mary's Celtic-Council clash, Knights Store Five will play the | National Circles in the Bolling Field | gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock. Alexandria and Episcopal' High Schools are having strenous workoues here today in preparation for their battle here tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock in the Armory Hall. CAPT. WALTER AT TOP OF BIG NINE SCORERS By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, Januaj 20.—Althe his team lost two n.mreys last week, gu 'h. Rut Walter of Northwestern climbed into the Western Conference individual basket ball scoring leadership with 34 points. The leaders, including scoring in con- ference games only: Player, Team. fs) Pos. G. Gl C 4 13 due 2 Michigan ch M au'naw.non W wamaoazeSel P N apman. Mic &, Michig: YATTSVILLE, Md, January 20.— Company F, National Guard, basketers of Hyattsville likely will be occupying second place in the Prince Georges County Basket Ball League after its game to- night on the armory floor here with the last-place Maryland Collegians. Com- pany F now is tied for runner-up with the Dor-A quint. In another league encounter tonight the loop-leading Brentwood Hawks and Mount Rainier A. C. will clash. This game, starting at 7:30 o'clock, will open the night's activities. Dor-A yesterday achleved its seconds place tie ‘with Company F at six wifis, and two losses each by vanquishing Berwyn A. C, 23 to 19. in a game that required an extra period. This contest was followed by one which necessitated two extra periods and in which Com- pany F squeezed out a 20-18 triumph over Willie Andrews' National Circles of Washington. Point-for-point battling marked the Dor-A-Berwyn game and at no time did either team hold an appreclable lead. At half time Dor-A was ahead, 7 to 5. | A basket from scrimmage by Vernon (Fiddles) Holland of Dor-A in the Jast | {at minute of the regulation time tied the 3 o Sy Hyattsville Military Quintet Out to End Runner-U p Tie score at 18-all. 'Then in the extra period Dor-A counted 5 points against 1 for Berwyn to triumph. It was the first defeat for Berwyn in its last five starts and just about eliminates that quint from the title race. Company F in vanquishing National Circles rang up its seventh straight win outside of league play. Incidentally, it was the Circles’ first defeat in 10 starts. It was a keen fight from the open- ing whistle, Company F had the edge At 6 to 5 at the half, but the score was tied at 10-all at the end of the third quarter, and a sensational shot from scrimmage by De Marco in the last minute enabled the Circles to gain a 17-17 tie at the end of regulation play. A foul shot aplece was the best the teams could do in the it extra but in the second comgn,y counting fouls, both by Di points for the Circles. League Team Standing. ‘won, against no % 50 @ i Brentwood Hawks. Combany F. DorA -,