Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1930, Page 33

e WASHINGTON, ‘D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, mRM"]ABl_E FOES Basket Ball Team Is Stopped After 34 Wins POKED BY SCHDO With Better Material at Hand, Coach Expects to Have Fine Eleven. NCOURAGED by its success on the. gridiron .last Fall, the best season it has had for some time, St. John's is hnnmfi for_the next scholastic ?oot ball campaign the hardest schedule ever undertaken by an eleven representing the Vermont . avenue school. -Ten games are planned, every one against a strong team. Conl.ch Paulie Byrne, who did well as coach of the Cadet grid- ders last Fall, is optimistic as to the 1030 season.. Highly promis- material among the under classmen which came to light in| the grid tournament he put on| during the past season has beeni 1ly heartening to him. ‘already have been arranged with Tech and Central of this city, La Salle Institute of Jand, Md.; Mount St. Joseph’s High and Calvert Hall School of Baltimore and St. James School of _Hagerstown. Gfim‘ Gedrgetown Prep, Oatholic Unl ity freshmen and La Salle High of Phil- adelphis aiso are to be met, but the dates for these games have not been nzaga, Georgetown y;: '&%‘??'&mm"flu be faced here and the other teams away. Mount_St. Joseph's -High to be en- countered : the Irvington gridiron, timore, fil. on October 4. Tech the following Saturday on the McKin- The St. John's schedule as it now October 4—Mount St. Joseph’s High | at Irvington. October 11—Tech at Tech. 17—Calvert Hall at Baitimore. November 2—La Salle Institute at Cumberland. . November 15—Central at Central. ‘November n—sLn.nmes at Hagers. Emerson’s basket btll‘tnm will en- Gettysburg, Pa., Academy t TR, st 445 otiock. m An unusually interesting intramural l hzt ball tournament is in progress at St. John's College High School. In the Soop 1-A and 2-A teams are tied for first 5 o the regular sehool team who are acting | College, will appear as coaches. In all some 75 boys are taking part. It hoped to keep the tournament going ‘until the time arrives to take up some new spart. It has been just about | decided that base ball will be abandoned | et the Vermont avenue institution and that. more emphasis will be .laid on track. Thus track and field aspirants are ted to be ruling the roost at £t. John's in the Spring. SCHOLASTIC SPORTS | PROGRAM THIS WEEK Today. ‘Tech vs. Western and Business vs. Eastern at Tech gym (public high school | basket bell championsl game), Pirst | game, Tech-Western, 3:45 p.m. ‘Tomorrow. | Central vs. Bethlehem High at Beth- fehem, Pa. Tech vs. Hagerstown High at Hagers- town. Ben Franklin vs. Bliss at Silver Spring ! Armory, 8:30 p.m. | Strayer vs. Predericksburg Collegians | at Predericksburg, Va., 8 p.m. 1 Gettysl Academy vs. Emerson at Eastern , 4:45 p.m. Gilman School Juniors Juniors at St. Alban's. SWIMMING. Today. - { Baltimore City College vs. Central at | Central, 3:30 p.m. | RAY BARBUTI WILL RUN | IN NEWARK A. C. GAMES | NEW YORK, Jmllry 31 (A —Ray vs. 8t. Alban’s | Navy Swimming Teams To Compete at Yale ANNAPOLIS, Md., January 31.— The differences between the Naval Andug.m Yale over a date for a untingdon, Pa., for a contest with Jlmhlll’u tonight. Terrapins and Wi from the results of their games with Duke University. = r-i'l, lm"‘ll North Carolina State by Junior the it | four points. feader is 1-B m-u:n,‘: in the senior tight ‘tomorrow night. {shuuld eater the conference champion- the tournament | shi started, but it is being carried on by | wit SCHUHMANN Guard HICAGO, 1, January 31.— Thirty-four wins in & row * before being stopped by Purdue at Lafayette, Ind, last night, is the record of the Loyola University basket ball team of this city. Not since the middle of 1928 sea- son had the Chicago quintet lost a game until last night. Butler University, the giant killer of the hardwood sport, was one of the latest and one of the most im- portant of the Loyola victims. Butler was beaten, 22-14, at Indianapolis. RANDOLPHHACO HEREFOR EVENGE Hopes to Wipe Out Defeat by Colonials—Maryland Has Task Tomorrow. g ary to decide ne. Gallaudet’s quint is at H Duke beat Maryland, This would indicate a If Maryland defeats the champion it tournament at Atlanta in March high hope. Another Carolina representing Elon here tomorrow night, meeting American University in the Eagles' gym. 2] Butler also was the last to win from Loyola, taking the Chicagoans in February, 1928. Loyola’s record of last year was discounted because the opposition scarcely was of major college caliber. is season it began taking on the big fellows. Butler was the thirty- fourth victim. Others included Mon- tana State, Vanderbilt, Detroit Uni- versity, North Dakota, S8outh Dakota, Arkansas and St. Xavier. Leonard Sachs coaches the Chi- ~ cago team. And around a rugged youngster—"‘Stretch” Murphy (same name as that of the Purdue cen- ter)—he has built a smooth-working court machine. BUTZEN | Guard Murphy, 6 feet 31 inches tall, is fast and has a fine eye for the hoop. He is the main cog, both defensively and offensively. The two guards—Schuhmann and Butzen, sophomores—alternate in dashing down the floor for baskets. Sachs employs the zone style of defense. Loyola is due to invade Washing- ton on February 10 to play George- town's capable quint in the Tech High School (gymnasium. George- town, under Bill Dudcak, is playing fine basket ball and should give the } Windy City team a redl tussle. Northwestern Attack On Trailer Play Best BY SOL METZGER. So lm?‘orunt a fundamental on attack the trailer , th dribble, pivot and pass af 3 man; es work out special e charges in its execution. One of the best is employed by Lonborg at Northwestern. No.’1 dribbles up court, with his LONDORG'S \DRIBBLE PRACTICE g -y opponent A cha: him and his teammate No. 2'%!11‘ him. No. 2's ent is already to de- fend the basket. . he pivots and passes to No. 2 and then follows No. 2 as No. 2, in turn, dribbles. ‘The best scheme is to have the pairs take turns at dribbling and at playing defense. In that way all four gain skill in workinf the play and also in breaking it up when opponents use it. Tomorrow we'll take up another scheme of attack, the modern cut-back. (Copyright, 1930.) EWISH COMMUNITY CENTER again has & crack basket ball team. So far the Center boys have chalked up nine wins in as many starts, including victorles over strong quints, In its next engagement the Center | team will entertain St. Martin's bas- keters on the J. C. C. court Sunday night at 8:30 o'clock. Teams entered in the newly organized Independent_Basket Ball ‘League, out- side of the District A. A, U., must file the names of their eligible players be- fore next Tuesday. Teams will be lim- ited to 10 players. Play will open Wednesday night with | Skinker Eagles meeting National Cir- cles in the Silver Spring Armory at 8 oclock. St. Mary's Celtics and United Alexandria, at the same hour, while Woodlawns and French quints will battle Friday night at Fort Myer. A schedule for the remainder of | league play will be arranged by Presi- cent Bill Flester. i Registration of players who wish to | compete with teams in_ the unlimited { and 145-pound classes in the District | A. A. U. champlonship basket ball tour- | nament starting March 10_will close tonight at midnight at the Post sports i d to be Center Basket sult of its 32-16 victory last night over Dixie Pig A. C. It was Pig's second loss of the league season. Petworth Mets and Tremonts will meet tonight in a league game at Mc- Farland Junior High School, at 9 o'cloek. ' Speedy Jewish Center Out for Tenth Straight Win ‘K‘yflewflur Grays will face in Schuler’s | Op! ‘Hall, ! 1ans, 40 individual registra- | 25. filed Quint a game with a District Guard team at the Coast Guard armory. Games with leading unlimited quints are sought by Mount Rainier's five, Call Manager Bud Bellman at Hyatts- ville 1043 after 6 p.m. Temple A. C. of Alexandria, which Las a court, is after tilts with teams In this city. Manager Embrey is listing at Alexandria 713-J. Contests with 130-pound teams are wanted by Saranac dribblers. Chal- lenges are being received by Manager Askins at Adams 4922. Corinthians ai casting about for engagements with 100-pound quints, Call Atlantic 2756. ‘Three games in the Boys’ Club League last night were decided by de- cisive margins. Iwinds defeated 468 to 27. Spengler Post pointed the way to Southwest Branch, 22 to H'w“;dl Kendalls drubbed Merid- 8keleton basketers rang up their eleventh in a -row when they over- whelmed Petworth A. C., 46 to 10. Rsesults of other games last night: Y. M. C. A. Regulars, 51; Wood- lawns, 31. Y. M. C. A. Reserves, 50; Neighbor- hood House Senators, 26. Burroughs A. C., 42; Lightning A. C,, Aztecs, 50; Western Union, 22. Trinity Methodists, 57 Epiphany, 2. Dumbarton M. E., 20; St. John's In- ” dependents, 17. Zuppke Calls Carnegie Report Mostly Hearsay LANSING, Mich., January 31 (#)— Bob Zuppke, University of Illinols coach, told a foot ball audience here that Bulletin 23, recently published by the Carnegie Foundation, is ac- curate in only 10 per cent of its | I statements.” -The Illinols | gridircn mentor 'was & speaker at & mer~ chants’ banquet in honor of Michi- gan State’s foot ball team of 1929, “One out of ten statement PURDUE FIVE NS Goes Overtime to Conquer . Chicagoans, Who Had Won 34 Games in Row. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, January 31.—Charlie —~Murphy of Loyola today had a. mathematical decision over Charlie Murphy of Putdue, but his team's remarkable string of basket ball triumphs was broken. Pulfilling all advas<e notices, the oon- test last night at Lafaysite, Ind., was the bitterest of struggles and =e=:ited in & 25-t0-20 victory for Purdue, with an overtime period necessary to bring a verdict. in 35 starts, ending the winning streak started late in the 1928 season. Loyola Charlie Murphy outscored his rival and namesake fromi Purdue, 9 glnl«l to 5, but his mates failed to per- rm as consistently as’ the alds of Purdue Charlie. The Murphys were re- sponsible for the overtime period, for with 30 seconds to play Loyola Charlie was fouled while in the act of shooting by Murphy of Purdue, and made one of his two free throws to tie the score at 20-all. In the extra session Purdue euur distanced the Ramblers. With the feature plece of the week a Western Conference triumph, Michi- gan and Chicago will meet tonight, in strictly big nine business. The ‘Wolverines will invade the midway seeking their second victory of the week, which would give them a tie with Ili- nois for third place, Michigan, although unimpressive in defeating Minnesota Monday night, was favored to hand Chicago its fourth straight conference setback. Ohio State may face Minnesota at Minneapolis tomorrow night without the services of Wesley Fesler, its star guard. Fesler was injured when the Buckeyes defeated Minnesota last Sat- urday night at Columbus, and was not expected to be in shape to play in the return engagement. Hinchman, substi- tute forward, will be in Fesler's place if the latter is unable to play. 25 Rk STATE TEAM READY FOR OLD LINE FIVE RALEIGH, N. C., Ji ry 31.—North Carolina State Colle basket ball varsity squad yesterd: rnoon went through its final home rehearsal before departing for the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland cam- puses for important conference tilts this week end. ‘The 1929 Southern tournament cham- pions, in games to date with strongest opponents in Tarheella and the Old Dominion, have shown & weakness in the guard positions and at making good on point attempts after fouls, The sensational offensive, however, while sorely missing the services of Frank win, center, and the country’s leafiing conference player scorer last season, has retained-much of its effec- tiveness. ‘The defensive itions, vacated by Bob Warren ‘and Gus Wright, the latter alternal with Morris Johnson, now captain, mmynr are bexn: ;tnw;m n; a youl sophomore, Bu e, an g’ohnm. Johnson, in reality, is a for- fastest dribbler in the ‘):Iwnt. :"ug" has donh iting at =] g with some of 'g:“ s uni mem- Filling Capt. Hank Young'’s berth at forward is Ji Brown, also a fast sophomore, but, like Johnson, he is Goodwin's job has been cared for by Bill Morgan, a second-year col- , and Johnny Gammon, a reserve saw some action in the hot battles of former campaigns. This pair has shown up better than Coach Gustav K. Tebell had anticipated several weeks ago. ‘The Wolfpack will meet Virginia to- night and Maryland tomorrow night. e ‘WRESTLERS IN DRAW, LOVOLA VIGTORS WANLEYISLEADING defeat was Loyola's first | BUSSINKS PLAYIV WINSFOR EDNZAGA Gets 16 Points.as Strayer Five Is Beaten—*‘Lights” Are Defeated. UDDY BUSSINK, whose work on the gridiron for Gonzaga last Fall was outstanding, also is shining on the basket ball courts. It was Buddy who was easily the stand-out for the Purple in their 32-29 victory last night over Strayer on the Gonzaga hardwood. He peppered the hoop for 16 points, just half his team's total, including 7 goals from scrimmage and two from foul line. Gonzaga was ahead of Strayer all the way the final margin being the closest the later ever got to the Purple. Gon- zaga’s half-time lead was 14-9. Dix and Chase, each with 8 points, were the losers’ high scorers. Q ' - | aommona® | woosce! wl comoa » 8 Pitsgerald. Gonzaga's lightweights, however, were beaten, 14 to 27, by Business’ little fel- lows in the preliminary to the Gonza- ga-Strayer game. During the first half the Purple “colts” were unable to score a single point while the Stenogs were tallying 14. Sinclair and Duryee with 9 and 8 points, respectively, did most of the win- Totals . Referee—Mr. Holbrook. Laid with 10 points led Rockville High Juniors to a 27-14 win over Wood- ward Juniors at the Central Y. M. C. A. g‘l:x. Hoyle counted 8 points.for the TS, IN BASKET SCORING Has Registered 109 Points in Prince. Georges Loop. Hawks Win Again. YATTSVILLE, Md., January 31. Johnny Wanley of the pace- setting Brentwood Hawks with 109 points in nine games is the leading scorer in the Prince Georges County Basket Ball League, according to figures by Willlam (Ducky) Meeds, league secretary. Statistics include Monday's games. Bud Bellman of Mount Ranier, with 74 points in eight , is second, and John Costinett of pany F, National Guard, and Rolph Jarrell of Hyatts- ville Southern Methodists, are tied for third, each with 63 points. Costinett has fhyed in 8 games, while Jarrell has taken part in 10. L4 Other ranking scorers, with their totals, follow: Charley Balley, Brentwood Hawks, 56; Bob Lyles, Dixie Pig A. C, 55; Rufus Vincent, Company F, 46; Sammy Hook, Dixie Pig A. C., 45; Blackie Adair, Dixie Pig A. C., Williams, Company F, ‘Weber, Maryland Collegians, each 34. Hawks in addition to leading the b e are well ahead in team scoring witfl a total of 297 points in nine games. Dixie Pig A. C. is second with seven games and Company F is third with 215 in nine games, Brentwood Hawks today hold a firmer gp on first place in the Prince unty Basket Ball League, having won their tenth game in as many starts last night when they nosed out Berwyn A. C. in a 33-32 overtime thriller, Charley Balley's foul toss, registered just as the whistle ending the extra period blew, gave the Hawks victory. Following the league game Company F's tossers overwhelmed Columbus Uni- versity, 45 to 17. Berwyn for a time threw a real scare into the Hawks, holding an 18-9 lead at the half after the first quarter had ended, 5-5. The third quarter saw the Hawks pull to within 1 point of their rivals at 22-21, Hawks assumed the lead early in the fourth quarter, but & basket from e by Giddings enabled Berwyn to tie the count at 28- all just before the whistle ending the regulation game. Then the extra period was marked by desperate battling until Bailey came through with his winning last-second chuck from the charity stripe. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. Virginia Poly, 30; Elon, 21. ‘Randolph-Macon, 32; Loyola of Bal- time, 29, Purdue, 25; Loyola of Chicago, 20. Southern Conference Basket Race Is Tight ATLANTA, January 31 (#).—Al- though five teams have passed the half-way mark in the Bouthern Con- ference basket ball ‘with- out meeting defeat, the odds are against any of them finishing with @ clean slate. . Alabama, leading with five vie- tories and with only one really strong foe ahead, seems to -have the best chance of completing the season un- conquered. The other four—Wash- ington and Lee, Kentucky, Sewanee and Georgia—must hurdle several formidable opponents. Kentucky matches strength with ‘Tennessee at Knoxville tonight and the chances are that the Volunteer marksmen will be more accurate than they were in the previous tilt which Kentucky won, 23-20. the Foering Star. WITE SUNDAY MORNING 193p. - ON THE SIDE LINES With the Sports Editor By DENMAN THOMPSON HE numbering of players has more than an even chance of soon becom- ing universal in the American League. That'’s the conclusion to be drawn from the statement of President C. Calvin Griffith following the unanimous indorsement of the idea by the Washington chap- ter of the Base Ball Writers' Assoctation of America. “If it will help the base ball writers and fans to have our players numbered I'm perfectly willing to do so. in 1930,” Grifith asserts, adding: “I'm in favor of the plan, but have been waiting for President Barnard to make it a league movement. I would first like to hear some expression from h'gh before taking any definite step.” Grift About-Faces. So far as the Capital is con- cerned this would seem to put the issue up to the boss of the circuit, but the real signficance of the thing is that Griff has executed a complete about-face on the proposition. When the subject first was broached to him several years ago when Tom Rice of the Brooklyn Eagle was conducting a campaign in its behalf Grift figuratively hit the ceiling. This was understandable. He is of the old school, a conserva- tive, and at times has been ac- cused of being downright re- actionary. In vain was it pointed out that the trend in other sports was markedly toward the num- bering of performers; that the colleges were adopting the ractice in foot ball, basket all, lacrosse, etc., as well as track, and futile were all ~ ments that on the diamond it would provide a quick and ac- curate identification service for those who were paying the freight—the fans. Or Like Jailbirds. It was all right for the rah- rah boys and others, he said, but never so long as he had anything to do with the Wash- ington Club would its players be sentenced to display nu- merals like prize cattle in a stock show. He was not only firm and de- cided, but positively vehement. The mere idea of plastering , ridieulous, o his_sense . of. some- thing or other. That was then. Now he is ’l'ln favor of the idea—perfect- y X We don’t know whether it was the practical demonstra- tion of the merits of the plan given its first real trial by the Yankees last season or what it was that caused Griff to so completely alter his views, nor do we know anything about the attitude of the other mag- nates aside from the original statement of Barnard that it was a matter for each owner to act upon individually. But it may be ventured that if an old timer as “sot” in his ways as Griff can be converted there is real hope that eventually all players will wear numbers. Amen, and may they be BIG ones. Can It Be This? But before dismissing the subject. with ‘the mystery un- solved it may occur to some one that a connection exists between the tough competition base ball is being given by golf, the automobile, foot ball, motor boating, etc., and the local prexy’s changed viewpoint. Can it be that the bosses of the so-called national pastime have become so apprehensive over the inroads being made by other Summer diversions that they have concluded to overlook no bets to hold—and " increase—interest in diamond doings? The attention of base ball addicts is directed to the first of a series of articles on the game's “Biggest Firsts” ap- pearing in another column of this issue. Its author, John B. Foster, a veteran chronicler and author- ng on the rules of base ball which he has assisted in revis- ing from time to time, promise many morsels of interest to followers of the sport such as that the first perfectly pitched game was turned in by a col- legian who was looked upon as a mere stripling, and that the first and only unassisted triple play in a world series was fig- ured out in advance by the man who made it. These contributions are cal- culated to prove fine fuel for the Hot Stove Leaguers, espe- cially as most of the “firsts” recounted were seen in whole or in part by the observer who typed them. The fact that Dale Alexander, the Carnera-sized first base- man of the Tigers, and his teammate, Bob Fothergill, like- wise rather amply proportion- ed, displayed sufficient agility to escape being hit with a pitched ball last season brings to mind that West of the Na- tionals was another who avoid- ed a - beaning. Once was enough for Sam. “The gossip is that Babe Ruth’s contract for $85, is and' u] {:Q the the Babe is in Yi are 'mg. ing to give in’ for the benefit of the bleachers.” Cynical, these sports writers. PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY. “Mean! lionaires, 2. bl ‘nhtl‘onotrnl Maroons, 3; Toronto Maple- New York Americans, 3; Detrolt, 2. ) PRO BASKET BALL. Cleveland, 30; Brooklyn, 23. Now on its LAST LAP! The FORSHEIM SHOE SALE This price reduction should certainly be an incentive to provide yourself with a pair or more of these nationally famous shoes at A FEW STYLES $9.85 Men—if you miss this sale —you’re losing money. SEEK WAYS 10 PUT NEW LIFE IN GAME N.C. A A, COmmmee Hears Some Queer Plans for Reviving Interest. OLLEGE base ball, according to the reecnt report made to the National Collegiate Athletic Association by its base ball committee, is in a pretty bad way. .The committee of which Prof. Edgar Fauver of Wesleyan is chairman stated, “During the three years the com- mittee has made’ & study of the situ- ation of base ball in the colleges it has not’ found its position ‘good or improv- ing.” This committee favors a new set of rules to cover college base ball, rules which will in no way differ from the present. rules in reference to the tech- nical part of the game, but with those portions deleted that refer to fines and suspensions -as applied to the profes- sional game. ' The committee advised that a code of good sportsmariship be included in It was also advised that the now. by. the colleges pe speeded up, that the players run back and forth to the bench between innings instead of ambling leisurély. back and forth, as they do now. Answers Are Amusing. ‘The causes for the declinle of interest in college base ball, as in an- !“{l u:‘ a quuuonl"lrem committee sent out, are unique ‘amusing. One college rted kt“’:l the cause of loss of interest in base ball was due to the automobile and advised that the auto be eliminated in the . Another -college . suggested “that & law. to keep boys away from courses, if - constitutional, would " stll:wnothe! coll it forth the sug- ed the , 41 favored a new set of college base ball were 0] K =4 One of ‘the -uqtuthu' - stimulat- ing interest in college bask ball whicl the committee coi red con- sidering, was for the base ball coach to retain -all the candidatés who nguud for the squad throughout the Spring scason and evolve a number of teams somewhat after the intramural system. The committee in its report admitted that it was unable lt: do much with the 3212 14th 7th & K “Men’s Shop”—14th at G