Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1930, Page 43

Che Tt beni SUNDAY MORKNING EDITION o Star. i Features and Classified WASHINGTON, D, G, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1930. PAGE D-—1 TECH WIN, TRILE TIF 1S POSSIBLE Grays Can Clinch Matters by! Beating Eastern—Latter, ECH and Eastern quints were undergoing the final preparation Western in Running. I today for their “battle of the century” tomorrow afterncon in the public high school basket ball championship series in the Tech gym The game will begin at 3:45 o'clock and will be followed by a clash between | Central and Western. The contests will end scheduled series play. Often in the current series it has been the second game of the double- header that is the most interesting, but it will be the opener, the Tech-Eastern battle, which is the big spot tomorrow. Tech can win the title by trimming Eastern, but Eastern can tie the Mc- Kinley team for the leadership by lower- ing the Gray. Then, should Western defeat Central in the final game of the twin bill, a three-way tie will be created among Tech, Eastern and Western. Tech now has won five games and lost two and Eastern and Western each has won four and lost three apiece. Central and Bush;asa a;‘et definitely out the championship picture. by In their flrzt series game Tech routed Eastern, 47 to 27, but whether the Gray can repeat is something that is doubted by many series followers, who point to the fact that the Eastern team is a much different combination than that which faced Tech in their first game. Eastern has won its last three games. Tech has captured its last four games. In schoolboy court games hereabout tomorrow, aside from the public high championship tilts, Ben Pranklin will meet Gonzaga in the Gonzaga gym in & night affair, Devitt and Georgetown Prep will clash at Garrett Park, Sher- wood High of Sandy Spring and Lan- don will mix in the Epiphany Church gvm and Bliss and Army War College will have it out at the War College. Four teams of the District scholastic group will hold forth on Virginia hard- ‘wood ‘Woodward and Washington-Lee High will face at Ballston, Va.; Business will open a week end trip against Bridge- water College junior varsity at An- napolis, Emerson will try conclusions with Augusta Military Academy in the second game of a week end trip and Hyattsville High will hook up with Oakton, Va., High at Oakton. Central is to engage Catholic Univer- sity freshmen tonight on the C. | hardwood at 7:15 o'clock in a prelim- inary game to the C. U. varsity-St. John's (Annapolis) tilt. Friends and Woodward were to clash at Woodward in a Prep School Light- ‘weight League game this afternoon. Emerson was at Staunton to open a Virginia foray against Staunton Mili- tary Academy dribblers and Business ‘was at Fredericksburg to engage Pred- ericksburg Collegians. ‘That St. John's has a basket ball team that will take rank with its sturdy foot ball team of the past campaign is evident today. The Cadets scored a 30-24 victory yesterday over Georgetown Prep, a team of proved strength. In a preliminary the St. John's light- weights also were victorious over the St. John's little fellows, 19 to 18. The line-up: St. John's G.F.Pts. fer. 14178 Geo. Prep. G.F. August® Heekin. 3 1 3 3 ol conroony | omauwonn! » 2 Totals ... Capt. Jimmy Ryan led Eastern's at- tackpla the Light Blue humbled Episco- pal, 41 to 30, in the Eastern gym. Han- cock for Episcopal, however, was top scorer of the game with 11 markers. Episcopal earlier in the season downed Eastern. ‘The line-up: - Pastern. GFPte Episcopal. G. Pishburne, 1. 0 McDonaid. £ 2 0 0 Moor Kilnefelter, 1. Senuitor Nale, 1. eveland Morgan. €. Hancock, Hoof!. Dandride ©oloss00080 worowosooaay oMM WD | momnoossssas Totals ... Gonzaga's regulars and lightweights had little trouble scoring over the first- stringers and little fellows of Gonzaga, | 40 to 15 and 22 to 8, on the I street | school court. The line-up: ] onosnuwanoy eosonseanel onosnwons” Morrow. . . Engiehart, s.. -l =l Totals .... Lts. y 7 Pte =l osossom0ed ol »| 53500muoa al oo0sonmon 10 222 Totals ... Business High lightweight basketers are after games_with teams in their class. Manager Sammy Cohen is book- ing at Business during the day. DOR-A QUINT BATTLING FOR RUNNER-UP BERTH YATTSVILE, Md., February 6— Do‘:—A quint will be out to gain second place in the Prince Georges County Basket Ball League tonight when it | meets Hyattsville Southern Methodist on | the National Guard Armory floor here. Dor-A at present is tied with Com- | pany F for the runner-up post at 7| wins and 3 losses. Hyattsvile High School basketers, vic- tors over Catonsville, Md., High, 23 to 9, vesterday on the armory floor here, | will go to Oakton. Va. tomorrow aft- | ernoon to meet the high school team there. Hyattsville's win over Catonsville yes- | men, at C. U. gym, 7:30 pm. (prelimi- | emy, at Staunton, Va. Bop HAVELL- SCHOLASTIC SPORTS PROGRAM THIS WEEK BASKET BALL. Today. Central vs. Catholic University Fresh- nary to Catholic University Varsity-St. John’s (Annapolis) game). \ Ben Franklin vs. Gallaudet. at Lang- ley Junior High. Emerson vs. Staunton Military Acad- emy, at Staunton. Business vs. Predericksburg Colle- gians, at Fredericksburg. Friends vs. Woodward, at Woodward (Prep School Lightwelght League game). Tomorrow. Eastern vs. Tech, Central vs. West- ern (public_high school championship games). First game, Eastern-Tech, 3:45 pm. Ben Franklin vs. Gonzaga, at Gon- zaga. Devitt vs. Georgetown Prep, at Gar- rett Park. Sherwood High (Sandy Spring) vs. Landon, at Epiphany Church gym. Bliss vs. Army War College, at War College. ‘Woodward vs. Washington-Lee High, 8 vs. Bridgewater College Junior Varsity, at Bridgewater, Va. Emerson vs. Augusta Military Acad- emy, at Fort Defiance, Va Hyattsville High H gh, at Oakton. Saturday. Georgetown Freshmen vs. Bliss, at| Silver Spring Armory, 8:30 p.m. St. John's vs. La Salle Prep, at Cum- berland (night game). Business vs. Staunton Military Acad- vs. Oakton, Va, Emerson vs. Woodberry Forest, at was the second the Blue and g"’l‘;’hfl tered over the Baltimore County scholastics. COLLEGE HOCKEY. Marquette, 4; Harvard, 3. Orange, Va. SWIMMING. Saturday. Central vs. Yale Freshmen, at New COLLEGE BASKET BALL. Loyola of Baltimore, 30; American University, 19. Davidson, 35; Virginia Military Insti- tute, 27. Columbia, 33; Dartmouth, 32. Rutgers, 44; 'Johns Hopkins, 2. Tilinols, '28; 'Chicago, 25. Otterbein, 33; Capital, 30, Mercer, 57; Oglethorpe, 32, Wittenberg, 47; Denison, 36. Navy, 39; Lehigh, 29. Army, 415 West Virginia, 36. THREE MAT CONTESTS ON AT STRAND TONIGHT Three bouts will make up the wrest- ling card at the Strand Theater to- night. George Taylor and George Ro- manoff will meet in the feature, backed up with contests between Joe Turner and Eddie Pope and Dutch Green and Tommy Mandell, Taylor _and Romanoff recently | wrestled 30 minutes to a draw. Their match tonight will be limited to two hours. l boxing Growing Rapidly in Southern Conference ATLANTA, Ga., February 6 (#). —Boxing, long a stepchild in South- ern Conference athletics, is bidding for a major position this year. More than half of the 23 schools of the conference are waging active pre-tournament campaigns this Winter, in comparison with the half- dozen or so of previous years. ‘With so many strong squads in the field, it appears that the North Carolina leather pushers, confer- ence champions for the past two years, will find much stouter compe- tition in their quest of a third suc- cessive title this year. Boxing gained its first foothold in the Dixie circle four years ago when the conference moguls sanc- tioned the establishment of an an- nual tournament at the University of Virginia, Eu:"g1 year's meet since that time Haven. < has found a larger number of teams entereds BiLL KINAMON- White, Havell, Linzey and Kinnamon compose a relay team which is slated to run Harvard and Penn, while Quinn will strive for honors in the invitation Dick WaITE- | EVENTS SCHEDULED FOR COLLEGE TEAMS Today. Georgetown vs. New York University, Tech High School gymnasium. St. John's of Annapolis at Catholic University. Western Maryland at Maryland. Gallaudet vs. Benjamin Franklin, Langley Junior High gymnasium, Tomorrow. Catholic University (swimming). at Delaware Saturday. North Carolina at Maryland. George Washington at American Uni- versity. Gallaudet vs. Maryland State Normal, ‘Towson. Catholic University at Lafayette (swimming). . HOWARD DROPS GAME TO LINCOLN BY POINT Lincoln today boasts a 21-20 basket ball win over its old foe, Howard. The Philadelphia collegians downed the Bisons last night in the Howard gym in a game that was hard fought all the Way. Lincoln was ahead at half time, 12 to 8, but the Bisons came back in the second half to take the lead and were in the van, 19 to 17, until the last two minutes of play. Two baskets by Snyder in the final moments enabled Lincoin to triumph. Lincoln. Da Cost: F.PU G . Pts. 2.1 Hall, | woroas-amse 20 l ~oco0ouen: N a2 Totals ... 3 I " @l moronomm, 2 5 il RUN TRUETO FORM Considine Scores Twice to Reach Quarter-Finals of Indoor Doubles. NEW YORK, February 6 (#).—Tennis form never prevailed more uniformly than in the national indoor champion- ships, which moved into the quarter- final round today at the 7th Regi- ment_Armory. In singles seven of the eight favorites as indicated by the seeding of the draw hold quarter-final berths. In doubles all four of the seeded teams are still in the running. After a day devoted entirely to dou- bles, the singles contestants resume action today with Frank Hunter, New Rochelle, N. Y., opposing Eugene Me- Cauliff, lanky New York youth; Herbert L. Bowman, New York, playing Perrine Rockafellow, also of this city; Gilbert Hall of South Orange, N. J., facing Ed Jenkins, the New York player, who could pass for Hunter's double on the court, and Harris Coggeshall, Des Moines, Iowa, striving to keep the Mid- dle West still in the running at the expense of Julius Seligson of Lehigh University. In the doubles quarter-finals today Hunter and Harold Throckmorton, New York, meet Walter Swaybill and Stan- ley Harte, New York; Rockafellow and Cutler, the Washington and New York combination of Bob Considine and Ernest Kuhn, which won two matches yesterday. Hall and Ken Appel play Ray Stone and Irving Raymond, Columbia Uni- versity. Coggeshall and Richard Murphy, Utica, N. Y., meet Ed Burns and Reg Talmage, New York. CALIFORNIA TO STAGE FIRST SKI TOURNAMENT TAHOE, Calif., February 6 (#). California is to be the setting of a national ski jumping tournament for the first time in its history. With 15 internationally known . ski | among students in the college where artists scheduled to participate, world records will be sought February 22 and 23 from a great ectory high on the slopes of a mountain on_ the northern rim of Lake Tahoe, near Tahoe Tavern, BARBUTTI DEFEATED IN SPRINT COMEBACK NEWARK, N. J., February 6 (#).— Ray Barbutti, running his first competi- tive race since he won the Olympic 400- meter championship, finished nfm ina fleld of five in a 50-yard dash at the Newark A, C. last night. Bill Bruder of the Newark A. C. was first in 5 3-5 seconds; Bob Talbot, Newark A. C, second; Bob Wiese, New York A. C, third; John McDonald, Yale, fourth, and Barbutti, running unattached, fifth, Barbutti fared even worse in the 60- yard event of the sprint series. His 180 pounds of bone and muscle ripped one of the starting blocks loose from the floor and he was left at the post, not even getting started. The others finished in the same order as in the 50, Bruder being clocked at 6 4-5. Dr. Paul Martin of Switzerland, vet- eran of three Olympic games, won the 1,000-yard special. Phil Edwards set all the early pace, but could not stand Martin's closing sprint. Ray Conger, the national champion at the distance, nipped Edwards at the tape for second place, Martin was clocked at 2:15 2-5. Eddie Roll, Newark A. showed the way to Pete Bowen of Pittsburgh, na- tional quarter-mile champion; Johnny Gibson, Bloomfleld, N. J., speedster, and Eddie Blake of the Boston A. A. in a 500-yard special. The time of 60 sec- onds was fost. COURT GAME SOON MAY BE TOPLINER Held Likely to Rival Foot Ball.. Georgetown Entertains BY H. C. BYRD. N. Y. U. in Big Game. ASKET BALL s due to be- | come one of the South’s| great sports, in the opinion | of Dick Smith, graduate | manager of athletics and basket | ball coach at Washington and Lee | University. Smith, who was here | the past week end with his basket | ball team, when it beat Maryland by four points, gave it as his opin- fon that the only college sport likely to remain ahead of basket ball is foot ball, and that boxing and wrestling never will attain the prominence that the court game is fast gaining. “Basket ball in the South has been growing by leaps and bounds in the last few years,” says Smith, “and un- doubtedly is the main attraction of college Winter sports schedules. Not only that. but, outside of foot ball, basket ball is the best sport the col- | leges have. Base ball has gone back- ward, or to say the least, has not pro- gressed, and boxing and wrestling, by their very nature, are not going to be- come generally popular. Boxing in some localities may run far ahead of basket ball, but speaking of the South as a whole, basket ball during the Winter stands alone, and no sport exceeds it in value to student bodies and to col- leges except that which is played on the gridiron. “In the North and West basket ball has long enjoyed great popularity, not only among the colleges and schools but also professionally. Just a few years back it began to grow in the South and is continuing to gain ground much more rapidly Spring sports. Of course, the time of year during which it is played accounts for this to some extent, coming as it does during the more or less otherwise dull Winter months. But the game potentially is attractive, and the South- ern Conference championship tourna- SHimulate” interest ‘T 1 peciii. in stimulal the Gulf States. “Boxing in some centers has attained popularity, but there is too much feel- ing against the sport in some quarters for it to attain the general strengtth tha belongs to basket ball. “Lacrosse is not played in enough schools to gh’e it much consideration, although where it is played it seems to be very attractive as a Spring sport. “The other college sports, wrestling, tennis, swimming, rifle shooting, etc.. do not create much interest, even such teams are maintained, and I some- than other Winter and | ON THE SIDE LINES With the Sports Editor By DENMAN T| RE are only two things certain about the alleged controversy between the Yankees and George Herman Ruth. One is that Ruth will be on the job when the New York club opens its season at Philadelphia next April 15, and the other that he will be appearing as the high- est paid performer in base ball. Assuming for the purpose of discussion that the making of faces and bandying of words is not being indulged in solely for publicity considerations, there is no doubt Ruth could stay out of base ball and keep the wolf from the door by no more strenuous procedure than clip- ping coupons. And there is little question he could constitute himself a sort of one-man team and tour the country to profit, or become the chief attrac- tion of some tank town| circus troupe | to the benefit | of his exche- quer. But only for a short time. After one year he would find himself in much the Babe Ruth. same position as the more or less great C. Arthur Shires, had the latter not heeded the handwriting on the wall and passed up the ring to_cling to base ball. By 1931 Ruth would be mere- | ly the ex-home run slugger of the Yankees and the former | most_colorful diamond figure. And he also would be just one | year closer to the inevitable end of his athletic career, which already has far exceeded the average. The none too robust Ruthian underpinning is not calculated to stand the wear and tear that would be involved by appear- ances on poorly kept fields he would encounter as a free lance | exhibitor and should anything happen to those props the | mighty Babe would go out like | a light so far as base ball is | concerned. | And still assuming Ruth and | the Yankee officials are not times think that it might be well to Telegate all such competitions to the realm of intramural athletics and eliminate them as forms of intercol- legiate competition.” New York University comes here to- night to play Georgetown in what should be one of the greatest games of basket ball of the year, as the two schools already have met twice this season and each has a victory to its credit. Up in the Yale tournament, at the beginning of the season, Georgetown won from N. Y. U, but later, in New York, the Gothamites turned the tables, ‘l‘: tonight's contest actually is the rub- T The game is to be in Tech's gym- nasium at 8 o'clock. University of Maryland has a game with Western Maryland College tonight at College Park and ought to win with- out difficulty. If it does not win, it will be about the only five that has failed to take the measure of the up-State aggre- gation. As one Western Maryland fan stated a short while back, “Our basket ball team is just as rotten as our foot ball team was good.” Gallaudet plays Benjamin Frank- lin University tonight in Langley Junior High gymnasium. The Kendall Green- ers except to score another victory. St. John's of Annapolis is likely to afford Catholic University more Opposi=- tion in the Catholic U. gymnasium to- night than the Brooklanders want. The Marylanders have played some very, good basket ball and have won some- thing like seven out of nine games. The only fives that has taken the measure of St. John's are Washington and Le and Johns Hopkins. b Southeastern University defeated Go- lumbus University last night, 29 to 24, In & game that was close from start to finish. Loose lived up to his name and ints for the winners. Colum. Plant, 1. ot 5o woaoFnd U. GFPts Totals .. 7 American University bowed to Loyola in Baltimore last night, 30 to 19, the triumph of the Monumental City tossers !lVLn[ them revenge for a defeat suf- ered here a couple weeks ago. Loyola led most all the way, holding an 18-13 edge at intermission and scor- ing two Famu to the Eagles' one in the last hal All of the Loyola regulars figured in the scoring. Sells and Olsen between them got 15 of the Eagles' points. The line-ups: Amer. u. Colison, W f Georgetown'’s 1-mile relay team Sat- urday night in the Milrose games will be made up of Ricea, Carlin, Briggs and Burke. The 2-mile outfit is to be composed of Julicher, Mara, Kelly and Downing. The quartets will be weak- ened considerably by the absence of Cranley and Milstead, who are having scholastic difficulties, George Washington's much-heralded boxing match with Catholic University last night developed into something of a flasco, as far as team comparisons were concerned, as three Colonials weie declared ineligible just a short while before the program opened. Jeweler, Terry and Stanley were thereby unable to enter the ring in their respective bouts, and the bouts went by default to Catholic U. Of the four bouts that were fought out, Catholic University won three. George Washington’s only victory was registered by Coveleskie, who knocked out Johnny Oliver. De uale, Zeno and Malevich won victories for C. U. respectively, in the 115-pound cl over Cohen, in the 175-pound class o gerely llflordlngt t.h‘et cash cus- mers an opportunity for gab- fests helptu‘l’ to all concerned, it safely may be stated it’s the Bambino’s - legs -which figure most prominently in the re- fusal of the club to grant his demand for a three-year con- tract calling for $15000 an- nually in excess of the $70,000 he received for each of the past three seasons. An agreement covering one year—two at the most—and a wage boost of about half the figure set by George Herman may be looked for as the in- evitable compromise to all the alavering, once more allowing hat everything isn't already settled. Anent Box Fighting. D!’MPBEY sald a mouthful in his recent radio talk to the effect there is no need to worry about any foreign fighter win- ning the title with Sharkey available to take care of them, but we can’t help wondering if he kept his face straight when HOMPSON he added he might return to the ring “to do my best to bring the heavyweight crown back to America” in the event it is won by an alien. Incidently, although state- ments by boxing managers usually impress us little if at all, an asser- tion credited to Danny Dunn, chief handler of Johnny Ris- ko, who was barred from fighting Vit- torio Cam- polo in New York because he was too small, has a ring to it. Risko has signed to meet the huge South American in the semi-final to interna- tional shindig at Miami the twenty-seventh of this month and in that connection Dunn boldly proclaims, “It is our big chance to show up Sharkey and Scott. Johnny will steal the show.” Stranger things have hap- pened, but if the second annaul party staged by the garden crowd in Florida ?roves any- thing like the initial venture featuring Sharkey and Strib- ling at Miami Beach last Win- ter the making good of this boast wouldn't warrant a charge more serious than petty larceny being placed against the Cleveland heavy. L THE feud just adjusted be- tween the Robinson and McKeever interest in the Brooklyn club of the National League, a continuous perform- ance for lo, these many sea- sons, probably is a bit puzzling to most fans outside Greater New York. The thing dates back to long before the death of Charlie Eb- bets 8ix years ago and has sur- p vived because Robinson has received the solid backing of his estate’s 50 per cent of the stock, with the oth- er half being voted by the McKeevers. Johnny Risko. President and Treas- urer Steve W, McKeever, would seem to have a most potent argument for wishing to be rid of former President and Current Manager Wilbert Robinson in the fact that since the Dodgers won their last pennant in 1920 they have finished in the second division eight times in nine seasons. But strangest of all would seem to be the fact that despite this sorry showing, supporters of the club in Flatbush should be so strong for the amiable and portly Uncle Robbie, who, nothwithstanding expenditure of more than $300,000 for talent has produced nothing but an also-ran club since it finished second to the Giants in 1924, the year McGraw's entry was beaten for the world title by Bucky Harris’ Griffmen. ‘Wilbert Robinsen. 11 BOUTS ARE CARDED FOR BOYS’ TOURNAMENT Eleven bouts will mark the tourna- | ment between the Boys' Club of Wash- |ington and the Southwest branch which will be “‘i‘d tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock at the main club. ‘The card follows: 8. W. Branch vs. Boys' Club. Miller ass. . 8 Botinds—w. Tonkie 85 pounds—Daniels |DEL RAY A. C. PLANS FOR UNLIMITED NINE ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 6.— Preparations for placing a strong unlimited base ball team on the dia- mond this Summer were started by the Del Ray Athletic Club last night at its weekly business meeting. Guy Camden, who handled the Del Ray eleven in a successful gridiron campaign, was elected manager of the base ball team while Jeff Williams, who is coaching Del Ray's basket ball quint, was named coach. It was decided to send represent: tives to appear before City Manager Wallace Lawrence with the request that | the base ball team be permitted to use George Mason High School's athletic field for Sunday afternoon games, With both teams battling to evade the cellar, a speedy contest should materfalize tonight when Whitestones and Del Ray meet on the Armory Hall court at 8:15 o'clock in an Alexandria Gazette Basket Ball League game, The basket ball combination of Swavely School, Manassas, Va., will play here tomorrow night for the first time this season when it opposes Alexandria High in Armory Hall at 8:30. Alexandria High School's girls team will play a preliminary an hour earlier. Two of the strongest teams in the Washington Independent Basket Ball League will battle here Saturday night when the St. Mary's Celtics entertain the Washington "United Typewriter Grays in the local's first game in the |. new league. The contest will be staged at Schuler's Hall at 8:30. Clover A. C. is endeavoring to arrange & preliminary game at 7:30. Call Man- ager Robert Foote at Alexandria 2027-J between 6 and 7 o'clock. Potomac Rifle Club has obtained the Duffalo, and in the unlimited class over Orlschlager. use of the Jefferson Elementary School basement for indoor. practice. ILLINI SURPRISES IN MIDWEST PLAY Overlooked at Start, Quint Third, With Chance to Tie for Second. By the Associated Press, HICAGO, February 6.—Not ser- son opened as a threat for the Western Conference basket ball today was resting alone in third place with excellent prospect of finishing the ‘The Ilini moved out of a tie for third place with Michigan last night by defeat of the championship season, 28 to 25. Reorganized during the last Horace May, its tall center, Illinois played raggedly in defelting Chicago, The Maroons made a battle of it dqun to the closing minutes, but failed Ilinois will tackle Minnesota at Minneapolis in one of the trio of con- should be good enough to down the Gophers who have won but one start son. With Wisconsin idle, a victory would give Illinois a_share of second triumphs and one defeat. Purdue will meet Chicago at Chi- for the Boilermakers to tighten their grip on first place. Indiana will invade urday’s card. Northwestern has an engagement for entertaining Marquette University at Evanston. Boston, 4; Philadelphia, 1. New ven, 5: Providence, 3. lously regarded before the sea- championship, the University of Illinois week in & tie for second position, administering Chicago its fifth straight week because of the ineligibility of but displayed plenty of staying power. stand the pace. ference battles Saturday night, and against a Big Ten opponent this sea- position with the Badgers at four cago, and this appears to be a cinch Ohio State in the other game of Sat- tonight with a non-conference opponent, T — PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY. Cleveland, 4; Hamilton, 4 (overtime). PRO BASKET BALL, Brooklyn, 25; Paterson, 20, Chicago, 24; Fort Wayne, 17, 1