Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1930, Page 31

4 Sports News Ban on Junior High Athletes Is “LION-HEARTED LEO.” - CODE OF HIGHER SCHOOLS IS UNFAIR, COGGINS HOLDS Student Coming From Lower Institution Should Not Be Kept Out of Sports First Six Weeks, Coach at Central Contends—Other Gossip. BY EDWARD A F Bert Coggins, Central High l . FULLER, JR. School director of athletics, and others closely associated with the conduct of sports in the public high school.syhere can do anything about it, tgo e regulation pre- venting junior high school graduates from competing in athletics in a senior high school until they h: six weeks, or one advisory period, wi As Coggins sees it, the junior ave been enrolled in the latter for i1l be abolished. high school graduate thus is pe- lized for no good reason. A student who has completed the junior g?ghz course ang enters a senior school is simply pursuing his educa- tion and, as he has earned promot: competition simultaneously with hi ion, should be eligible for athletic is enrollment in the senior insti- tution, in the opinion of the Central mentor. In foot ball particularly the six- week ban against the junior high graduate works an injustice, Cog- gins believes. A boy entering a senior institution in September is not able to do much: in the grid game his first year, as he does not become eligible until around No- | vember 1. | Coggins also believes that another public _high school rule should be changed. This is the regulation which enables a student transferring from one school to another to compete in athletics at his new school after six weeks. If it is apparept that the boy is transferring simply use he believes he could do better in an athletic way, Coggins is in favor of barring him tHereafter from sports competition for the remainder cf his time at the school instead of just six weeks. However, should a boy trans- fer because of change of residence or some other good reason it would be an entirely different situation. Elmer Hardell, Tech director of ath- letics, recently gave it as his opinion that an athlete who transfers from one school to another for no good reason should be barred for a year rather than six weeks. Both Coggins and Hardell are reed that should a long period of inel lity be provided athletes of the so-called “floater” type would hesitate long before essaying any floating. A game between Georgetown Prep | and Eastern in' the latter's gym is the | high spot of the scholastic basket ball card hereabout tomorrow. | In the only egmr contest ul'ded‘ for | court in the city proper Georgetown ;ruhmen and St. John's will face on the Cadets’ floor. Business will go to Manassas, Va., to engage Swavely School basketers, Cen- tral and Episcopal will have it out at mwpll and Hysttsville will hook up Charlotte Hall in other games. ness and Central were to open the pro- | gram at 3:45 o'clock. ‘Three afternoon matches and four might games also were listed. In the afterncon encounters St. Al- bans and Landon were to meet at St. Albans, Hyattsville High and Woodward at the Central Y. M. C. A. and Wood- ward Juniors and Episcopal Juniors at 1 Lang] 8 o'cl .l: Junior High gym at 8 o’cloc! and g’lfihlnmn and Baltimore Strayer uints, old rivals, on the St. Martin's (b floor at 8:30. A tilt between the ‘Washington and Baltimore Strayer girls’ teams will precede the boys’ game. Central and Tech rivalry will be re- | newed Thursday afternoon, when the | lightweight basket ball teams repre- | senting the Blue and the Gray will| come to grips in the Central gym at 3:30 o'clock. No valuable athletes are included in | the mid-year graduating class at West- th School. E"l‘.fl’:t?fl will be awarded members of the 1929 Western foot ball squad at an assembly tomorrow morning ‘William R. Racquet Club | ‘coach, probably w\n'me charge of box- ! ing aspirants at Emerson, starting early | in Pebruary. He will also instruct in Jtu_jitsu, according to plaps. | Should sufficient interest be mln(-i fested in the ring sport the Emerson boxers probably will be booked for matches with other teams. | | St. Albans students are getting the | fine points of boxing and wrestling from C. E. Volz, who has been at the Cathedral school for several ks. 'elelo outside matches have been ar- ranged the boys well grounded in the funda- mentals of the ring and mat sports. One of four games on Emerson’s Vir- ginia basket ball trip next week has been called off, that schéduled for Feb- ruary 5 with Massanutten Military Academy, at Woodstock. Games with Staunton Military Academy, Augusta, Military Academy and Woodberry For- est now comprise the itinerary. A basket ball double-header has been arranged for Thursday :g:emooin in S'a Albans gym between senior - an junior teams of the Cathedral school and the Raymond Riordon School of New York City. St. Albans juniors also have booked) A court match with Gilman School, Jjuniors of Baltimore for Saturday aft-( ernoon on the St. Albans floor. Emerson may entertain the Atlanta,,| Tech High eleven in a post-sea- son foot ball game here November 284 next. The Atlanta eleven has agreedi| 10 come here then, according to Harley P. Sanborn, Emerson coach, but the date has not yet been closed so far as. team is concerned. 5 High, which enter- tained Tech two years ago, and Green- brier, W. Va, Military Academy are, other schools wmlkh‘t‘: let. nmbe known they would e come TS to meet !:n{erwn also on November 28, Sanborn says. With this date closed the Emerson, schedule will be closed. Other gam:s arranged follow: / September 27—Woodberry Forest at/| September 30—Business. October 4—Mercersburg Academy ati Mercersburg. October 11—Gettysburg Academy. 18—Staunton Military Acad- r emy at Staunton. chy ber 2b—unuw rknumn Military Academy at Woodstcck. Nflgfir 1—Tome at Poft Deposit, N -‘Baylor Military Acad- Cha mmmfl Mary at Wi ‘inona itary Aulny 7 t | Westport, Md., quint in Fndon hias' Central to Lose Four Athletes in Midyear Central will lose four athletic stal- ‘warts as the result of midyear grad- uations, three of whom were foot ball regulars last Fall, Bob Eicholtz, tackle, who gained all-high recognition; Loren Murray, another tackle, and Charlie Magiil. halfback, are the gridders who wiil receive the sheepskin. Mason Wagner, the other athlete to be graduated, is a member of the Blue crew. BASKETERS BATTLE FOR SECOND PLACE Whirlwind and Woltz Fives Also Struggle to Stay in Pennant Race. ECOND place in the Community Center Basket Ball League flag race will be tossed up for grabs tonight when Whirlwinds and Woltz Photographers, tied for the run- ner-up post along with Dixie Pigs, come to grips in the Central High gym. ‘The winner will have a real chance to overhaul the league-leading Poto- mac Boat Club tossers, but a body blow will be dealt the pennant aspira- “Tosers; - - =i ‘Whirlwinds, ‘The 1 Pigs each have won_ five. Pigs acl ir place tie last night by drubbing Naval Hospital, 41 to 20. Meanwhile Poto- macs kept the lead by Calvary Drakes, who put scrap, 26 to 20. Phoenix A. C. basketers, who have been showing strongly, have booked 2 game for tomorrow. night with the Baltimore. ‘vanquishing up a game He; y_the Phoenix for a game Saturday in the Eastern High gym at 9 o'clock. Games are t by Calvary Bap- tist Drakes flmn. 145-pound or unlimited class teams having gyms for ‘Tuesday and Thursday nights. Chal- lenges are being received at National 2520, Branch 1626, during the day and Metropolitan 8041 between 5 and 6 p.m. Woodlawn A. C. five of Fort Myer will invade the K. of C. Hall here to- night for a game with the Casey quint, tarting at 8 o'clock. Woodlawns are % larendon 925. Wood- lawns last night defeated Y. M. C. A. | basketers, 47 to 34. Unlimited class quints are challeny by Neighborhood House Senators, m | are booking at Metropolitan 1573, Saranac A. C. is after court games with 130 and 145-pound class fives having floors. Call Manager Akin at Adams 4922, Hayes, Ourand and Boerner bombard- ¢d the courts at West Co. scored over Ramblers, 36 to 13, in the Central High gym. Company C, District Guards, turned in somewhat of a surprise victory when they overcame National Circles in a thrilling 19-18 floor duel. Collins was the big shot in the Soldiers’ attack. Results of games last night: 5Anuy Medicos, 48; Naval Air Station, 15. Fort Humphreys, 21; Stantons, 16. “Pullnnn A. C, 38; Royal Arcanum, Corinthians, 47; Y. M. C. A., Hamline, 37; y E, Guards, 23. COLONIALS PREPARE AMBITIOUS GRID LIST Having arranged a e with Towa to be played October 18, George Wash- ington University athletic authorities now are engaged in completing the most ambitious foot ball schedule the Colo- nials have had in years. Several inter- sectional games appear in the lot and virtually all the teams to be met will be stronger than thoss George Wash- ington grid teams have played in recent seasons. The scheduling of Towa for October 18 will necessitate a shift in the date for the South Dakota game, but no trouble in making this shift is antici- pated. The Colonials have an open date October 11, as American Univers- ity, originally listed for that day, has canceled. The Colonlals also may change their September 27 scheduling. They have a tentative engagement for that day with Morris-Harvey. American University is planning a fenced-in fleld for its foot ball games next Fall if it does not arrange to stage its home contests in Central Stadium. Construction of an inclosed near the university is anticipated. ‘When it meets Randolph-Macon basket ball Priday night, ge Wash- ington will have virtually a new team D. c. [ —y Eugene Huat, famous #s a French fiyweight, now is on the trall of world ittt The %y Den SUNDAY MORNING EDITION [ 1 w ASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, ‘JANUARY 28, -t,\‘ 4&/ LEO RAN ONE. % N @7\ A MuLE 13 A1 —By MURRAY l 4 . 7 U.5.NATIONAL. MILE RUN CHAMPION, WHO 15 COMPETING INA SERIES OF RACES IN ALSTRALIA THIS WINTER Mocopsiitsa Newspaper Bervise N THE £ S NY4R7 smier UST about a year ago I wrote, in a story on Leo Lermond, that track fans should not overlook the fact that the Bos- ton Athletic Association flyer was quite capable of making Paavo Nurmi do some extra-fast stepping. Nurmi was beaten by Conger, who was later beaten by Lermond, and “Lion-Hearted Leo” also took two other conquerors of the famous fiy- ing Finn into camp, namely, Purje and Wide. The transition of Leo Lermond from a two-miler into a miler about 8 year ago was one of the sensations of the Winter track season, but in the present board campaign the fans will have to do without the rangy Bostonian, for the popular distance runner is in Australia to compste in a series of races “down under.” While Leo lacks the rhythmic Tunning style and grace of a Nurmi or a Wide, he gets there just the same, and his wonderful finishing sprints have brought the fans to their feet on many occasions. He has plenty of power in reserve, no matter how his head bobs up and down or rolls about. Don't be fooled into thinking that he is “all in” be- cause he looks that way—the big heart and great stride of this likable lad often carry him ahead at a ter- rific pace when he really feels ready to drop. Especially in the final two laps of a race does this latent power show itself. Leo's Jast-minute “kick” is a sight to behold. In Amsterdam, at the 1928 Olym- mc games, ond finished fourth the 5,000-meter run, trailing Ri- tola, Nurmi and Wide, the “Three Scandinavian Musketeers.” In the Winter previous he Had run 2 miles in 9:16% at the national indoor games and last Winter he forced Conger to do 4:1325 in the mile in that thrilling Conger-Lermond-Wide- Purje contest in Madison Square Garden. Then, at the Gen. Wingate Memorial Fund meet in New York last Summer, he turned in his sen- sational 4:13, and later beat Conger at Denver to win the outdoor na- tional A. A. U. mile title, Wisconsin Springs -, Good Block Play BY SOL METZGER. Those who tirade against block lays in basket ball, claiming them legal, should consider this one and others to follow. They are plays used by leading college teams. Yet in principle they are akin to the one skown yesterday. Three years ago Wisconsin sprung this No. 1 was dribbling up the Wwith & trailer. An op- ponent rushed him to bat the ball LATERAL PASS FROM DRIBBLE 1 ORIBBLES 2 FOLLOWS WiM ATIEMPYS 70 BLOWK 1' DRIBBLE 1 LATERAL PASSES 70 2 away of force him to pass. Just as the opponent swung at the bounding ball, No. 1 performed an act of legerdemain. He actually got his hand on it in such a way as to bat it backward, as he came to a full stop, and into the hands of his trailer, o. 2, who continued with the dribble, Naturally No. 1 was between No. 2 and the opponent who rushed him. That is blocking. But it is legal blocking. Basket ball cannot bar such plays unless the rule makers can figure out a way for players on attack to vanish in thin air if one happens to get between the ball and u]:.-opponent. Next—Another trailer play. |ALEXANDRIA BASKET LOOP OPENS TONIGHT ALEXANDRIA, Va, January 28— Bl Loagre Tioh the Kniehes ioe sy e e Knights Pive and Del Ray A. C. meeting at 8:15, A preliminary between George Mason High School girls and and Knight's Buddies will start an hour earlier. Knight's team is regarded as the favorite, v St. Mary's Celtics have called - off their usual Tuesday night battle at Schuler's Hall. Instead of going into action at home, the Celts travel to Fredericksburg, Va., to meet the Col- legians. Magnus W. Bales, E. E. Carver and E. E. Lawler, jr, will represent the Old Dominion Boat Club at the meet- ing of the Southern Regatta Associa- tion, which is to be held tomorrow night in Washington. Bales is presis- dent of the Southern rowing ' bog: while Carver is treasurer. Lawler Was president of the assoeiation last year, Del Ray A. C. and the Unic Printers of Washington, will play h’é}’l tomorrow night in the Armory Hall at 8:30 o'clock. Whitestone's quint nas listed a game with the National Press Building Cardi- nals for the Central High School - nasium in Washington, February f der 2 Temflle A. C. divided a doubl yest y, defeating the Clark G ::;127. mdlmngwthesufi ; ‘With the appointment of %. E. Law- ler, jr., as secretary, Jack Tulloch, chairman of the Alexandria Gazette Basket Ball League, said that ths offi- cial staff had been completed. ‘Tulloch is chairman of the executive board while his aides are Fred Pettit, R. B. Berryman, R. P. Whitestone and e rd of governors is composed of Jake Preston, %lobél‘! ‘I,WCDQ::M, Ted ush, Miller and Carrol is official timer, Jack Carl Mueller Howard, official scorer and “Hobey” O'Meara, referce. ¥ | nesota, 26 to 13, at Ann Arbor. MINNESOTA SIFTS Wielman of Michigan Added, but Aspirants Narrowed to Less Than Dozen. By the Associated Press, INNEAPOLIS, Minn, January 28—The search for a new head foot ball coach at the University of Minnesota has candidates, Prominent among those being con- sidered today to succeed Dr. Clarence ‘W. Spears, who has resigned to coach at the University of Oregon, is Elton E. (Tad) Wieman, former head foot ball coach at the University of Michi- gan, who is coming to Minneapolis Wednesday to confer with Gopher officials. News about Wieman's trip to Min- neapolis came in an Ann Arbor dis- patch, which said he had been invited by Dr. Lotus D. Coffman, president of the University of Minnesota. “I haven't a word to say,” was the only comment by Dr. Coffman when asked about the report. Many students and alumni are giving strong support to the candidacy of Arthur “Dutch” Bergman, who has been Spears’ first assistant at Min- nesota. Several other former Gopher stars are included in the list of candi- dates. They are Clar Shaughnessy, head coach at Loyola, New Orleans; Earl Martineau, assistent coach at Purdue; Bernie Bierman, head coach at Tulane, and Ossie Solem, director of athletics at Drake, Others who have received attention are Andy Kerr, head coach at Colgate; Charles Dorais, head coach at Detroit University; Tom Lieb, assistant coach at Notre Dame, and Fritz Crisler, Chicago. MICHIGAN QUINTET CLIMBS IN BIG NINE By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 28.—Michigan today had enough of a balance on the profit side of its Big Nine basket ball ledger to place it in a tie with North- western for fourth place. The Wolverines last night won their third game in five starts, defeating Min- The triumph gave Michigan a clean sweep of its series with the Gophers, and ac- counted for the latter's fourth straight setback of the season. . Michigan won handlly enough, but failed to look anywhere near as impres- sive as they did in smothering Inghm last week. The Wolverine sharpshooters collected only six fleld goals, to five for the Gophers, but displayed steadiness from the gift stripe. Offered numerous fre: shots by Minnesota’s 15 personal fouls, Michigan cashed in on 14 a R 7 Michigan will play its second engage- t of the week at Chicago Friday ht. Minnesota also will see action for the second time during the week, en- ing Ohio State, its conqueror last week, at Minneapolis Saturday night. SOCCER MEET POSTPONED. Washington and Southeastern Dis- | irict Soccer Association will meet next lesday night instead of tonight as originally scheduled. The postponement is made because several members of the assoclation now are out of town, accord- ing to President Jopn MacBeth, LIST FOR GRID J0B &= narrowed down to less than a dozen | GONZAGA QUINTET FINALLY “ARRIVES' Flashy in Beating Eastern. Capitol Hill “Lights” Win. Landon Five Loses. RREL MITCHELL, Gonzaga basket ball coach, feels bet- ter today than in some time. It appears that the Purple has arrived in a basket ball way. Until yesterday, Gonzaga's work on the hardwood this season has not been impressive. However, yesterday the Purple conquered the hustling Eastern tcs‘s’:fl, 33 to 25, a feat which lttfll the I Streeters as a clever quint. The Lincoln Parkers had demonstrated wer in previous games. poconupl.) was ahead of Eastern throughout the game staged in the I street school gym. Bob McVean and Danny Pyne were the stand-outs for the Purple, whos> half-time margin | was 21 to 14. McVean found the cords for 15 points while Pyne chalked up 9 | markers. m.BrlllerNoonln was most consistent for Eastern, offensively, coming through | with 11" points. Little Danny Kessler | played well on defense for the Lincoln | Parkers. Gonzaga. Nolan. 1 | Fitzgeraid, | Mevean, | A Farreit. | 3. Farren, | Bussink, Dunn, §. Q s PPts. Eastern. ppus | GUTY Wl 08| H 2l cwnrosomars! ¥l oCunocomons! Totals Referee. Two goals from scrimmage by East- man and another by Morrow in the last two minutes of rlny enabled Ray- mond Riordan School basketers of New York to come from behind and vanquish Landon’s quint, 16 to 132, in the iphany gym. !pl.gndon was handicapped in those final moments because of the loss through fouls of Charley Hill, depend- able guard. Baker scored eight or half of the loser's points. | e | Hopkins, &. Morrow. ... Totals Totals A long shot by Forsythe and a close- up toss by Warner brought Eastern vic- tory, 29 to 26, over Business in a game between the lightweight quints of the | schools yesterday in the Lincoln Park School gym. It was a battle all the way. Eastern was in the van at the half, 14 to. 10, but lost its lead in the third quarter only to come back in the moments to win. | vossases, Ll =o0500mmiy Eastern Kerwin, sunmomond oasuouLe® | Forsythe, & Warner, .. Totals Hotzin, Totals liough. |SCHOLASTIC SPORTS PROGRAM THIS WEEK Today. Business vs. Central, Eastern vs. Western, Tech gym (public high school basket ball champlonship games). First game, Business-Central, 3:45 p.m. St. Albans vs. Lardon at St. Albans. Woodward Juniors vs. Episcopal Jun- lors at Episcopal. Ben Franklin vs. Gonzaga at Langley Junior High gym. 8 p.m. Emerson ve. Washington-Lee High at Ballston, Va., 7:30 p.m. | ‘Woodward at Hyattsville High Central Y. M. C. A. Strayer vs. Baltimcre Strayer, at St, Martin’s gym, 8:30 p.m.; Washington Strayer girls vs. Baltimore Strayer girls, 7:30 p.m. Tomorrow. Georgetown Freshmen vs. St. John's at St. John's. Business vs. Swavely at Swavely. Central vs. Episcopal at Episcopal. Georgetown Prep vs. Eastern at East- e . Hyattsville High vs. Charlotte Hall at Charlotte Hall. Thursday. Gonzaga vs. Strayer at St. Martin's gym, 7:30 p.m. vs. Tech Light- | | | vs. Central Lightweights welghts at Central gym, 3:30. Woodward vs. Eastern at Eastern. Raymond Riordan School (New York) Seniors and Juniors vs. St. Alban’s Sen- lors and Juniors at St. Alban's. Friday. G ‘Tech vs. Western, Business vs. East- ern, Tech gym (public high school basket ball championship game). First game, Tech-Western, 3:45 p.m. Saturday. Central vs. Bethlehem High at Beth- lehem, Pa. wTech vs. Hagerstown High at Hagers- wn. Ben Franklin vs. Bliss at Silver Spring Armory, 8:30 p.m. Strayer vs. Predericksburg Collegians at Fredericksburg, Va., 8 p.m. Gettysburg Academy vs. Emerson at Eastern High, 4:45 p.m. Gilman School Juniors vs. St. Alban's juniors at St. Alban's. SWIMMI Friday. Baltimore City College vs. Central at | Central, 3:30 p.m WANTS NAME CHANGED. Ed_Abbatticchio, star of the Mohawk foot ball team for several seasons, has petitioned the District Supreme Court to his surname to Abbey. Ed claims he is well-known here by the latter mml:hmd l:;\:ld ll]l:nzhw ll.uvz d“ appear on dip! W] e is grad- uated from Georgetown University this year, Nats Have 14 in Line As West and Pyle Sign Fourteen of the thirty-one players on the roster of the Washington base ball club now are in line for the 1930 campaign. Nos. 13 and 14 were registered yesterday when the signed contracts of Sam West, out- fielder, and Herbert Pyle, pitcher, were received at the Nationals' headquarters, West again is expected to perform as a regular in the Washington pas: tures. ‘Pyle is a fighthand slabman from Chattanooga of the dying | for middlewoights. | Comics and Classified ny Shar. 1930. ‘The Great Middleweight. O my way of thinking Stanley Ketchel (born Stanislaus Keikal of Polish ancestry) was about the handsomest animal that | ever stepped into the prize ring. In addition he was the greatest of the middleweights under the Marquis of Queensberry rules. Like most of the leading lights of A the manly art of modified murder, he came up from nowhere. His first semi- public appearance was in the role of bouncer - waiter in a Butte, - Mont., saloon and dance hall. He came to that place from under a freight car, begrimed from riding the rods “l:,l‘: l‘)‘lne lace of origin. L On the dl% that Tommy Burns, anley Ketchel, who sucoeeded to 'l Xete the heavyweight championship when Jeffries retired, fought Bill Squires of Australia in San PFrancisco, Joe Thomas, the middleweight champion and the “Pride of the Pacific Coast,” met an unknown, who gave the name of Stanley Ketchel, at Marysville, Calif. All of the experts attended the Burns- Squires bout, for that was a heavy- weight championship ‘affair. It turned out to be the farce of the century. Squires, on the force of sheer ballyhoo, was a 5 to 1 favorite. But a few sec- onds after the opening bell the stocky Burns dropped him for the count with a blow on the temple. In the meantime the admirers of Joe Thomas were astounded to learn that the Thomas-Ketchel fight resulted in a draw. I got some of the harrowing detalls the next day. It seemed that the un- known was very good indeed. Early in the fight he stretched Thomas on the mat with a peculiar shifting blow and Thomas was quite out. But sitting behind the timekeeper was & man who had a small fortune bet on Thomas at very heavy odds. This gambler happened to have with him a gold-headed cane. With great presence of mind he reached over the timekeeper and banged the bell. The seconds jumped into the ring and dragged Thomas to his corner, where they revived him with salts and water. In the meantime Old Man Pande- monium himself reigned. It was dis- covered that the round had a full min- ute and a half to go. The fight was resumed after Thomas was thoroughly revived and the champion managed to evade that shift for the rest of the bout. They gave him a draw, for it was an unwritten law in California in those days that a champion would not be deprived of his title while he 5. was us. second fight was an’ epic _bout Ke , as I in- sist, was the handsomest of thé fight- ing snimals, and Thomas, too, was a Tunney. This bout, scheduled for 40 rounds, lasted 28. As I recall it, each man was down seven times during that battle. I happened to be watching the bout with a telephone cap on my head, dictating bulletins as it pro- ceeded. Once - Thomas caught Ketcbel on the point of the jaw and stretched him motionless ‘on ths mat. The timekeeper had counted eight before a muscle moved in the form of the prostrate gladiator. He sprang up at “nine,” bewildered and ¢m, but he weathered the Toun Toward the end Thomas was bein knocked down regularly, and eacl time he came up just ‘a little more wearily. Finally, Ketchel, with his pe- fine-looking athlete of the type of Gene | third fight, which was held in a circus tent in a storm, with the lights on and off, Kefchel won the dec! In the last fight he knocked o Thomas in a few rounds and—and the story goes—broke his heart. He Destroyed the Others. [ERE were other middleweights of the period who might have been looked upon as great if it had not been that Ketchel (“the Michigan As- sassin”) happened to be around at the time with perhaps the most deadly punch that was carried by any fighter, with the possible exception of Ruby Robert Fitzsimmons. There was Billy Papke. He was a great fighter until Ketchel finished him. The Ketchel-Papke story is one of the won- ders of the modern prize ring. In one of their fights in Southerm California Papkne knocked Ketchel out. There were various alibis for this occurrence. The story is that just as -they were shaking hands at the opening beil Papke swung a right to Ketchel's eye. The blow paralyzed the optic nerves, just as that blow by Jack Sharkey paralyzed the optic nerves of Tommy Loughran and sent him reeling his way around to a corner with his back toward his adversary. But, blinded though he was, Ketchel did not drop to the mat. With the film over his eyes he felt | his way toward the opponent he could not see and lasted it out for several rounds. Then there was an utter black- ne:s before him and he was knocked out. Now it is an axiom of the game that a fighter once knocked out never is of much use against the man who knocked him out. “They never come back,” they say in the ring. But Ketchel did back. The fighters were matched agi for a bout in San Francisco. This time Ketchel administered such a terrific and systematic beating to Papke that the latter never was anything of a fighter after it. Ketchel hammered all of the pugnacity out of him before he finally knocked him out. He not only beat his man, but he beat the traditions of the game, Close to the Title. 'TANLEY p.'rcm came within 4 inches of being heavyweight cham- pion. That was when he fought Jack Johnson in a bout in San Fran- clsco that was scheduled to go 15 rounds -]—a very short fight for that time and place. I was given to understand that there was what the boys would call “a gentle- men’s agreement” in advance of this fight. Secretly, the arrangement was that it was to be an exhibition bout. Johnson was not to endeavor. to lay | Ketchel horizontal, and Ketchel was not supposed to attempt any real violence upon the person of the “Big Smoke.” But Ketchel at the time was -under | the management of Willus Britt, a very ambiticus fight manager. He felt that his position would, be strengthened ma- terfally in a financial and social way it his charge could become the heavy- weight champion as well as the middle- weight champion. I regret to feel that Mr, Britt could break a gentlemen’s a; ent. But suddenly Ketchel shifted and swung with all his might at the jaw of Johnson. If that blow had landed where it had been aimed Ketchel weculd have become heavyweight champion. But Johnson, wary and snakelike of | movement, always was on_the alert for | the double cross. The Negro jerked down his head with the swiftness of a rattler. The blow caught him high on the cheek,.and a lump formed there immediately. Johnson dropped from the force of the blow, but he was up in an instant. As he rose he shot his into Ketchel's mouth and knocked him across the ring, out for 10 minutes. ‘When started to remove John- son’s f:ve ey found two of Ketchel's teeth imbedded in the leather. Ketchel missed the heavyweight title by this culiar shift, caught him flush on the jaw and this time he did not come u They fought again twice. p. | In the| margin, but without doubt he was the greatest and most colorful of the mid- dleweights, (Copyright, 1930.) NOTE—As -a partial answer to the auestion, “What are the, comspicuous floures in-sports of other davs doino now?” the' Associated Press presents herewith another of a seri view with Devid L. Fultr, jameus 25 vears ago as a base ball star and until last vear a bail oficial. | BY BRIAN BELL, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, January 28.—For more than a score years stories of some big foot ball game each Saturday included a line in the summary, “Umpire, David L. Fultz, (Brown).” Last year some other official’'s name was in his place and he appeared no more in white knickers running here and there on foot ball flelds, sticking close to the players and leaving the ball to the referee, as all umpires do who know their business. Dave Fuiltz turned his back on foot ball just as he left base ball flat 25 years ago when "he was near the top of his game. The answer then and 25 years later was the same—the I No injunction was issued against the crack player and official, but he is a lawyer and the demands of his practice out- weighed his love for the games. “Fred Murphy (his law partner) and T decided last year that we would give up officiating,” said Mr. Fultz, “and so we quit.” Murphy was as well known as a referee as was Fultz as an umpire. Officials’ Lot Not Easy. “Some people think that a foot ball official has an easy time, two or three hours each Saturday out in the open, seeing a foot ball game. Not at all. ours and hours are spent on study of e rules, and the actual work during game is the smallest part of it. “‘At that, it is strange to see 'a game from the stands after years of watching the players at close quarters. I only sa season and it was hardly knew what Notre Dame was trying , but I felt like a duck out of water or a bird in the arctic He was there only a short time, how- ever, and moved over to the Philadel- phia Athletics, he played in 1901 and 1902. He came to New York to play an 1d position for the Highlanders, now the Yankees, in 1903, 1904 and 1905. “I was admitted to the bar in 1905 | and qm&“ procured Southern Association in the draft last Fall. Fultz Still Likes Foot Ball, But Law Keeps Him Off Grid :|WEILAND, BRUIN CENTER, It was about a week ‘or so before the | close of the 1905 season. We were play- ing Cleveland. Kid Elberfeld and I ran together while we were chasing a fly ball between the outfield and infleld. My face was in a cast for months as a result of that collision and I had to drink my food instead of eating it Had Griffith Worrying, "I often think of Clark Griffith, who Was our manager. We did not have a very good ball club and how he worried. I guess he worries now as president of Wasl , but his troubles can not be nearly so weighty as they were then. By the end of the season he looked like & dead man walking around. “He always had a lot of outside advice glven him. Some one constantly was telling him what he should do, as if he didn’t know what to do. Yes, old Griff hldx a hlr"d time. “I spent a good y years in base ball and -foot ball. I was president of the Players' Praternity and for a time president of the International League long after I quit playing base ball and of course until last year I have acted | steadily as a foot bzll official since I left college with the Brown class of '98. “In a way I miss the contacts, but after all the law is my profession. I gfilgn't do both, so I had to quit foot Fultz was one of the few players— they can be counted on the fingers of one hand—who left major league base ball when he was good enough to play. “I would not say I was quite as good Wwhen I retired as I had been a year or two before” he said, “but I was fairly fast and had not slipped at that time. “No, they didn't have to cut my uni- form off.” GIRLS’ TEAMS TO MEET IN A LEAGUE CONTEST Capital Athletic Club and Epiphany | sextets will meet tonight in a Girls' Recreation Basket Ball League game in Epiphany gym at 7:30 o'clock. Strayer and St. Paul's teams will face in another league match tonight in the St. Paul's gym at 8 o'clock. Eaglets overcame Delta Phi Sigma girls, 12 to 10, in a league game last night at Business High, . TOPS HOCKEY SCORERS MONTREAL, Janua: 28 (P)— “Cooney” Weiland, speedy little center of the Boston Bruins, has taken the post of leading goal getter of the Na- tional Hockey League. Weiland has scored 25 goals, while Nels Stewart of the Montreal Maroons, the former leader, has dropped back to tle for- second hexvllh Dit Clap- ve 23 each, per of Boston. where two former national champions, Nelson and the “Y” team. er, and 8. Goldberg, bye: G. and L. Arnold, BYE:Y W. J d E. C. Wallis, Dr. C. W. Englehardt 'y. J. Brunini and P, Pearimi Irey. Groft leb, PAGE C—1 Prolested : Basket Ball in Olympics Likely DOWN THE LINE | WITH W. O. McGEZHAN. MAY HAVE A PLACE IN GAMES OF 19 18,000,000 Are Playing Court Pastime in Thirty Nations, Allen Declares. BY F. C. (PHOG) ALLEN, University of Kanss coach and noted basket authority, LYMPIC calendar — Baskct ball, Los Angeles, 1932! With 18,000,000 persons in 30 nations playing basket ball there appears to be no reason why the game should not have a place on the Olympic pro- gram. And 1, as chairman of the Olympic committee of the National Basket Ball Coaches’ Assoclation, am now negotiat- ing with international athletic leadeis about including basket ball in the schedule at the 1932 Olympic at Los Angeles. Bo far I have received much cncouragement, now are playing basket ball in India, Prance, Italy, Japan, the Philippine Islands, China, Persia, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Greece, Mexico, Canada, Poland, Russia, Germany, England and practically all of the South American countries. With such a growing interest in basket ball its place on the Olympic in | calendar will be sure to come. Some ot the foreign countries had their introduction to the game almost simultaneous with the inventor's first draft = The first printed copy of tha basket ball rules appeared in the Tri- angle, the International Y. M. C. A. fl:;\zool paper, Springfleld, Mass, in At this time Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basket ball, and Dr. Luther Gulick were co-editors of the Triangle, and on account of lack of funds for printing they deemed it both wise and expedient to get the rules in printed form in this way. 1 Because of this and because of its origin at Springfield, Mass., a distribut- ing point for world Y. M. C. A. secre- taries, basket ball has spread uniformly to all nations of the globe, Tflml national pjoneers of basket ball planted the game in foreign lands in the following years: India. Duncan Patton, 1894; France, Emil Thies, 1895; 1900; Persia, C. Robert Galey, 1904; ,Mexico, Richard Williamson, ~ 1904; . Turkey, ter Tobin, 1910; Greece, Louise Riess, 1912; Italy, France's neighbor, copied the glh:n‘:. fi'vmlm::er in u:en;m: our gnlm soldlers gave the game Philippine Islands in program. LEAGUE IS FORMED BY JUNIOR ROLLERS HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 28— Organization of the Prince Georges County Junior Doubles Duckpin Asso- ciation has been effected here. Four teams so far have joined the I Others will be admitted, and applicant are asked to get in touch with Vernon (Fiddles) Holland at the Arcade alleys, Hyattsville 1024, Play will start Saturday night at 8 o‘clock and will continue each Saturday night thereafter cn the Arcade alleys for several weeks, Personnel of the few teams so far entered are Holland and Glasgow, Wat- son and Marvin Lewis, Navlor and Bradley and Carrick and Hardy. Holland and Glasgow will engage Naylor and Bradley Saturday night. Maryland Collegians, who have shown improvement in their recent games in the Prince Georges County Basket Ball League, today are tied for sixth place with Hyattsville Southern Methodists as the result of their 31-21 victory last night over the Churchmen in the ar- mory here. They now have won three games and lost seven. A league game between Dixie Pig A, C. and Company F, National Guard, scheduled last night, was tponed. This spot, hawever, was filled by a game between Company F Reserves and a icked team, which was won by the atter, 29 to 19. Brentwood Hawks, who are leadi: the Prince Georges County Basket Bal League with nine victories against no defeats, will be represented in the 145- pound division of the coming District of Columbia A. A. U. championship tournament. Dor-A is another league team which will enter the tournament. It will hold forth in the unlimited division, ‘Tomahawk rollers are het up after shooting a game of 613, a new all-time record in Section 2 of the Prince Georges County Duckpin Association. 19 ARE CONTESTING IN HAND BALL EVENT With gold, silver and bronze medals awaiting the winners, 19 hand ball players are contesting for honors in the annual singles tournament the Cen- tral Y. M. C. A. gym, 1736 G street. The tournament will end February 28, when awards will be matle. Ths first round will be played this week. Added interest has been given the matches this year because.of the deci~ sion of the local “¥' city championshij Bal¢more and Wi state hand ball tournament February 8 in the new buil Wilmington Y, l'}’. B. Morgan, assistan r glonlh " Morgan lllwb\l to engage in inter- competition with The Tri- it will be held dings of the n. M. C. A, o to of the local agsociation. u}' cham- w“ll’. we 1timore, nd ball Habelman are on ave keen competition from Drawings for the first round of the ingles tourney follow: P. Naggi, bye, nd T. Charshee, bye; Wi and W. Hammond, bye al in, by