Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1930, Page 49

dhe Foen ing Star. WITH SUNDAY MORFING EDITION Features and Classified WASHINGTON D. FRIDAY DECEMBER 12, 1920. PAGE D-1 Navy Sporting Winning Air in New York : Point After Touchdown Seems Doomed CALM, CONFIDENT AT BATILE SCENE Attitude Like That of Army as it Headed West to Play Notre Dame. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 12.— | The men from Annapolis, | calm and confident, were here today for battle with tomorrow onthe Yan- adium’s battle-torn grid- the Ar kee ¥ron. | There's an air of careless ease| about the 43 powerful Midship- | men who form the squad that will | tackle the Cadets for the sake of | charity in the first game the serv- ice schools of Uncle Sam have played si the break in rela- tions in 1927 heading 1 West to shock Notre nd all bu t tie the greatest eleven | hey are the underdogs | they have everything to ng to lose. They have a - going to surprise every- feel hunch th act just like Army did | - BACKFIELD STARS WHO WILL OPPOSE IN SERVICE BENEFIT GAME TOMORROW The Army most of all Up from the caverns under the Penn | Station they filed last night, trim and big in their blue uniforms, and into one | of the most, spontz s receptions any d ever received here. The | corps from the U. . S. nd the band from the | Brooklyn Naty Yard gree them with | roaring “Amghors Aweign” until the| echoes rolled jup and down the station | and the big tri-motored airplane on ex- hibition on the main floor almost took off 'in_the wind. Crowds rushed down from thé Strects to join the relatives and Navy\men that formed the nucleus of the gxmb;xmv. and the Negro porters, the red caps’and the innocent bystand- ers alife all' went wildly and noisly Navy under the spur of the blaring brasses. Ingram Sees Huge Task. The crowd shouted for Bill Ingram. he head coach was pulled from the sion, lifted about the crowd and ced to tell'them that Navy would do | talking only tomorrow ~afternoon. all, it was a grand reception, a back to the anciedt rivalry ts and the Midshipmen an relude to the temporary Te- of the Nation's greatest single foot bail fued. With his squad safely tucked away in a nearby hotel, Navy Bill was able o settle down and talk the situation | He profesces little hope of beat- | Army Saturday, but the coat of | pessimism that covers his optimism is thin_indeed “This team is made up of the finest| boys I've ever seen,” he said. “but I'm | afraid they just haven't got the strength o beat Army. We'll give them a great 1 be satisfied with that. Navy on_their showing | ja last Saturday. right that day wrong. We haven't e that all scason ly won't Saturday. I urprise me, but I don’t think its d I'L n't rate hope the; Thus Navy Bill with just the sign of | 8 twinkle in his eye, prepounded his lit- | t e lies and then scouted around | see that all his big youngsters were | tucked away safely for the night ram isn't sure about his starting the entire squad is in fine al condition with the single ex- on of Joe Tschirgi, one of his good backs, who has a bad leg but will see | some action. Lou Kirn, plunging ace of the Midshipmen, has his face all| plastered up as a re of contact with | a Pe knee last Saturday, but | thy. Joe Hurley prob- | halfback post with | € at full and Johnny rounding out the starting quar- | ‘Will Perform for West in Game With Notre Dame Gridders. I SEATTLE, Wash., December 12 (#).— of Washington grid play on Jimmy Phelan’s ern foot ball team, which ¢ an eleven of former and pres- ent Notre Dame stars in Los Angeles December 27, Phelan, Washington grid coach, sald fe had invited his assistants, Ralph “Pest” Weich, Clarence “Cotton” Wil- €ox and Bill Woerner to play against the Notre Dame lne-up and they had | accepted. Al are former Purdue | Wilcox a half- | an end ‘ MORENZ IS HOCKEY STAR ®layer Called “Almost Through” Sets Pace in National League. EW YORK. December 12 () — hrough the strenuous. struggles of the | quarter of the National Hockey | e campaign, Howle Morenz, star r man of the champion Montreal has stood out above all other dual player orted to be “almost through” for past two or three not only has ta of the league's scc leading factor of six su S them wel division Tiv Moren t night as asons, Morenz, | n his place at the top | rs but has been the | ne Canadiens' string victories that has put of all their Canadian | victory No. 6 last| lied a goal against the | ting down alone in | ¥ od when his team was The brilliant feat, one of he Flying French- | ory in one of the sea- | gon’s fastest games. Rockne On ly Baby 7 ot 5 ¥ ] When Stagg Began OUTH BEND, Ind., December 12 (#)-—In case Knute Rockne’s sge was not known, Coach A. A. Stagg, sr., of the University of Chi- cago pas tipped it off, at least ap- proxifately. At the annual testimonial banquet given last night by the Notre Dame Alumni Club of the St. Joseph Val- ley Stagg said Rockne was about & | year old when he (Stagg) started «coaching. ‘The grand old man of the Mid- | way last season coached his thirty- ninth Maroon team. “And,” sald Stagg, “I haven't had | the vitality of these Army play | be one of the best games of a highly LOU KIRN, Navy. ‘Cadets Giver; Great Send;()t;f As They Go to Meet Middies BY LAWRENCE PERRY. | EST POINT, N. Y., December 12—The sencoff accorded the Army team as it left late | yesterday for Briarcliff, | | where it will rest until it is time to go to the Yankee Stadium to meet the Navy on Saturday, must have echoed and reverberated to the banks of the Severn. | After a period of self-containment, | unusual and absolutely untraditional | fcr days preceding a Navy game, the Corps of Cadets broke loose and blew up when their gridiron representat boarded the buses awaiting them front of the gymnasium. It was g though the Cad come de to realize that a foot ball g the Army's dearest and de: was imminent and so they wild. ie: went hog: Heard If Not Seen. It was raining. Deep blue mists draped Crow’s Nest, Storm King and the other peaks which look down upon the academy upon the plains. The trailed across the reservation, ming with_the twilight shades, distorting all familiar objects, And the mu curious things with the windo: disarranging them into bedra geometrical designs. You could not s the Corps: you caught mere pression of movement terminate mass. But They were deafening. They ted their spirit through the dark to the vague figures climbing into the motor busses “Pight on brave old Army This song and other good old songs rose and rolled to the highlands and on and on. There be no Jack of encouragement for this | Army eleven when it takes the field on | Saturday and the Navy rooters will be | met cheer for cheer and song for song The team had a light workout Thurs- day afternoon and today at Ardsl they will hold signal practice. Exami- nations and the wear and tear of’the | Notre Dame game and preparations, | therefore, have unquestionably ped . The scholastic tests have resulted in lack of sleep and, of course, there has been | them. team.” | it a lot of physical outlet. The task of the coaches has been more one of resto- ation than of gruelling workouts, The team has been taught all that mentors have tg teach, and it remains now to put the on the field fit to give their best. they were not ready and today they would not be. But two nights of sound sleep, combined with a pleasant change of environment, are expected to do the trick. So Saturday Army adherents may expect to se¢ an- eleven raring to go. Sebastian Not to Play. Sebastian, who filled Letzelter’s place and was the wheel horse of the attack, will b and Frentzel a thi ill take his place. But cth: ist hes been cleared sk troop expedient, it s been de , will not b2 game won and put on ice at all, it is believed the time to do will be right at the start, so team’s full strength will go into action at the ou . Whether it remal game depends upon the and the relat 5 us It is known that the out to give everything it has, and Army scouts who saw the Penn game have turned in reports which have led to anything _but rconfidence on the part of the coaches, They know and they have made the players realize that the Army is in for a tough after- throughout the ortunes of war of the score. will be win, however—as the writer will-—it will be because of e thinks the: faster and more experienced 20 Years Ago (From The Star Files.) Man: ngton p hope of © (c Aleer of the Wash- m had about given his star catcher, Street, to advantage. ty voted to make ort t °d Neilson rn to Georgetown as foot would not r ach in 1911, bal, THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE- That Army Line. HERE is no myth about the p er of this Army line, from end to end. Harvard and Yale ad- mitted it was the strongest they had to face all year. Notre Dar found it about an even match, outsi of possibly two plays. When vou he four such ends as Carlmark and Me senger, King and Malloy, you have the ends you necd. King is about as good an end as there is in foot ball. He is over 6 fect weighs 195 pounds. is fast and keen. He is the bombshell that hit Albic Booth. He is the lad who hit C: s0 hard they picked up the latter 20 feet beyond the sidelines. He is the party who jumped over M blocked Carideo’s kick and then took out the only Notre Dame man in sight as Prite fell on the ball for a touch- down. Big Price, 220 pounds, has been best tackle in the East. Price and others complete a set of for 001, | Williams, Gannon, Kirn and Hurley of Navy looked as good as any s Army backs we have seen this s Maybe a trifle better. But they not stepping through the Army Saturday, This will be a foot tomorrow” It has the potential stufl to dizzy year. DAM WALSH reports that he will | have a team on hand Sunday' tha will hold its own with the New | York Giants, the present Notre Dame team, Alabama, or anything else you can think of. ' His line will . include some of the best centers, guards and tackles foot ball has known. The four horsemen may not be colts any longer, but they can still step. Poot ball may have known two smarter ‘backs than and Stuhidreher, the rival field gen- erals, but who are they? The Giant: are out to show a big crowd that a pro. & national championship winner fessional foot ball team can play about all the foot ball there is to play. They Friedman | * quite enough opposition to prove their point on Sunday. Base Ball and Foot Ball 'OT many e grown as far as a few games ple, the Washington r batch of the Athletics seven Ben- granted that if one m beats another rather de- winner is much the better aturday, more than ¢ might easily be an . one week or beaten team easily and the lateral pas: owing and catching ade foot ball almost ase ball, where a tail- ague, leader seven the con: foot balls, h: inconsistent a s my Too much attention is paid to one important game, so far as individual yers are concerned. It is unfair to the fine record for a season wiped by one day's performanse which may have bheen gely in the nature of an off-day r most of the team. On such days they all look bad, even those out who are not in an off-day mood. Casey at Harvard. ARVARD gets a smart ch and a likable personality in die Casey, who takes Arnold n's Casey knows foot bail and he is certain to follow Horween's idea in making foot ball & game and not a drudgery, Horween has always been a fine ‘type of coach because Horween is a high- class sportsman. He leaves a worthy successor in Eddie , who should have a backfleld to liking with Wood, Crickard, Mays and White as a rter. Pilling Ben Ticknor place is nother matter, It may take two good foot ball players to do that. 5 (Copyright, 1930, by Northi American News- per Alliaice.) foot ball their | followed. | the | KEN FIELD, Army. | G. U. Host to Gettysburg and A. U. Entertains Maryland State Normal. EORGETOWN and American | University basket ball quints will open their seasons tonight the former against Gettysburg | o'clock and the latter against Mary- land State Normal School on the A. U. court at 8:30 o'clock. Ben Pranklin and | Bliss Electrical School are down for a | in Stlver S; ng National Guard Armory at 8:30 o'clock tonight. It also will be the season’'s opener for both these quints, | College on the Tech High floor at 8:30 Washington College Conference game | | il | Georgetown will face Gettysburg with | real misgivings. The Pennsylvanians | upset the Hoyas, 33 to 26, in the latter's | 5 | opening game here last Winter. George- town, without such dependables as | Freddy Mesmer, Maurice McCarthy, Don Dutton, Hal Meenan and Johnny ( Dunn, regulars a campaign ago, for the | first time in several years faces a court campaign with genuine worry. | Walter Morris, captain and forward; | Bill Shea, forward, and Paul Dillon, | center, are the leading seasoned players | at_hand. | Bill Mazcees and Dick King of the girl eleven, Jack McHale, freshman | luminary last Winter, and Johnny | Scalzi, ‘crack Hoya quarterback, are some other aspirants. Connors and | Gellis, forwards; Murphy, center, and | Carolan and O'Neill, guards, are among | leading members of the freshman squad | which opens its season against Central tonight in the preliminary to the | varsity game, starting at 7:15 o'clock. American University will present a combination against Maryland State | Normal containing four regulars of last se team. Johnny Woods and Red Olsen, who played guard last Winter, are listed to start at forwards for the Eagles with Oscar Sells at center and Bob Fuchsle and Warren Colison as guards. Fuchsle is the lone newcomer of the group. Ben Franklin is endeavoring to ar- | range a basket ball game with Georgla | Tech for either Decembey/ 28 or 30 here | Frank Jones and Frank Stutz, Wash- ington boys, have been presented varsity letters in foot ball at Lehigh. Jones, | who lives at 125 B street southeast, was a backfield regular, and Stutz, who re- | sides at 413 Quincy street, alternated at center. Both are seniors. Jones also has won two letters in base ball. BUILD GRIDIRON QUICKLY Skating Rink to Be Turned Into | Foot Ball Field. | CHICAGO, December 12 (#).—The | construction of a foot ball gridiron usually requires months of work, but the Chicago Stadium will prepare one | for the Chicago Bears-Chicago Cardinals indoor game Monday night in a few hours. [ Immediately after a hockey match Sunday night the ice will be melted and the floor drained. Then workmen will move enough dirt into the huge plant to cover approximately 47,500 square feet to a depth of six inches FRANCE HAS A HEAVY. PARIS, December 12 (#).—Charle: Herzowitz, for years one of France's reatest rugby linemen, has become a Reavyweight pugilist. He bowled over his first four opponents inside of five mioutes of fighting, - BOB CARVER, _Army. STRONG FIVE LIKELY "OR EPISCOPAL HIH Five Letter Men and Nine Others on Hand—Difficult Schedule Will Be Played. ALEXANDRIA, Va., December 12— With a bright outlook for one of the speediest quints in its history, Episcopal High cagers are wel under way in their training for the didicult 1B-game schedule. Five letter men, including four mem- of the varsity team last season and a substitute, are available, along with nine other members of the 1930 squad. Capt. Charley Hancock, center; Acy McDonald and Billy Cleveland, for- Czar Train and Al Orrick, are the letter men on hand. The varsity schedule follows: January—10, Tech High; 14, Swavely School at Manassas, Va.; 17, Eastern High; 21, Georgetown Prep at home; 24, Gilman Country School at Balti- more; 28, Tech High, at Washington; 30, Augusta Military Academy at Char- lottesville; 31 -(afternoon), Virginia Episcopal School at Lynchburg; 31 {night), Glass High School at Lynch- | urg. February—4, Central High; 7, St. Al- ban's School; 9, Shenandoah Valley Academy; 11, St. John's High; 14, East- ern High; 18, Western High at Wash- ington; 21, Swavely School; 25, Emerson Institute; 28, Woodberry Forest School at Ora . The schedule: January—13, Friends School: 24, Landon Prep; 31, Alpha Delta Omega Fraternity. | February—10, Landon Prep at Wash- | ton; 13, Friends School at Washing- | ton; 18, Washington and Lee High sub- stitutes. fi#&%&%&‘é&‘#&‘é&%fi&&&&&g&&fi GIVE SPORTING GOLF CLUBS and BAGS 309 orF MATCHED | SETS o INCLUDED & Standard Makes SOCCER BALLS LEATHER COATS 25% SHOT GUNS I All Standard Makes Greatly Reduced Leather Shot Gun Cases Hunting Cases, Boots, Etc. FOOTBALLS VOLLEY BALLS 2_51’ AIR RIFLES WINCHESTER REMINGTON MARLIN SAVAGE RIFLES 927 D St. N. W. | ardized form, and any material tinger- | scheme fared better, especially in view ATLAS SPORT STORE OPEN EVENINGS KICK PLAY IS HELD A T00 INDIVIDUAL Rules Body Eager to Keep Foot Ball Team Game Is Against Boot. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, December 12.— | The point after touchdown ‘ as a part of the game of | foot ball is doomed. It is | not out of the question that the| Rules Committee might drop it at| their Winter meeting. In any| case, the days of this unfair and ridiculous appendage to the game | are numbered. | General satisfaction about the rules has characterized the current foot ball season. Feeling is general that the | game is getting pretty close to stand- inz with the body of the sport would | not meet with approval. . | But the ditching of the point-after- touchdown rule would be certain to | meet with commendation of players, | coaches and the foot ball public gen- erally. So far as the Rules Committee is concerned, the aim of this body has been steadfastly toward the point where foot ball shall be absolutely a team game, with the individual promi- nent only in so far as he is a part of | the machine. Play Too Individual. In many respects this has been brought about, but the point after touchdown still throws a burden of responsibility upon individual play, and prominent members of the Rules Com- | mittee have made no secret that they do not like it. ‘There is also reason to suspect that a growing feeling that the time has | come when the forward pass should be | somewhat restricted is reflected in those who have the rules of the game in their custody. Indeed, it was hoped that lateral plays might in some degree supersede | the overhead toss. In such case, with the defense outbalanced by the attack, the way would have been cleared for some action concerning forward pass- ing. © But it begins to look as though Lhe‘ lateral play would be valuable merely as a part of an offense and not nearly s0 important a part as the forward | pass. Agawmnst a strong line defense and | adequate backfield preparation, it would | seem as though the backward pass can | assume little more importance than at- taches to a well-operated element of a system of attack. So, certainly, nothing will be done about the forward pass at this time, or probably for some years to come. Notre Dame System Elastic. The semson started with two great systems of attack standing as rivals— e Stanford system, as applied by lenn Warner, and the Notre Dame system. All told, the Notre Dame of its elasticity, as shown against Southern California, when the Irish huddled, threw laterals and in general amplified their tactics. | As for the Warner system, a defensive | practice of the two defensive ends driving in on the offense wingbacks and cracking them, no matter where they went or what they did, defensive tackles more or less waiting on the line in event that the inrushing ends should be spilled, was quite successful in check- mating the double wingback in all its strategical manifestations. And let it be whispered that the next radical contribution to foot ball offense is going to be sprung upon a bedazzled defense by a gifted young man named Harry Stuhldreher. PR L 238-POUND TACKLE AGILE. PULLMAN, Wash, December 12 (#).—Glenn Edward’s, Washington State College's “Terrible Turk” named tackle in the all-America consensus of the Associated Press, plays all over the field, although he weighs 238 pounds. In the Oregon State game he intercepted a pass and ran for a touchdown. A SELECTION TO FILL THE WANTS OF EVERYONE AT LARGE REDUCTIONS TENNIS RACKETS Standard Makes BASKET BALLS OFF SWEATERS Fishing T.ackle RODS, REELS Largest Assortment in City—at Reduced Prices BOXING GLOVES oFF STRIKING BAGS ROLLER, ICE R R O I T T P R e R R R R R T B! ¥ SKATES | SKATES Metro. 8878 Navy Depending on Backf_iei;l To Give It Edge on Army Team NAPOLIS, Md., December 12.— n spite of the generally opti- mistic feeling among Navy peo- | ple as to the game with the Army team Saturday, no Navy coach has yet expressed confidence in & vic- tory over the West Pointers. From Bill Ingram down the mentors believe that the team has improved greatly and will play a good game against the Army, but they realize that the Army has played better average foot ball than the Navy throughout the season, and that if both are in form the chances favor the more experienced team. Still, the coacehs do not despair of a victory by any means. They recognize, however, that_only can the game be | won by the delivery of hard and clean- cut foot ball by the Midshipmen. No_one disputes, for instance, that the Army is better equipped on end, and it has a better lot of replacements in line and backfield. On the other hand, the Navy is inclined to believe that its first-string backfield has some- thing on any combination the Army can put in the fleld. . This leaves two main elements of playing upon which, according to local opinion, the game depends, the com- parative work of the line from tackle to tackle and the general equipment of the teams as to attacking plays and generalship. Upon the whole, Navy people are in- | be decidede upon the result of the | class among the five big fellows on the | line, the tackles, guards and centers. | In spite of the fact that the Army | has been sup) to have its main | strength at t point, Navy people are confident that they will not outplay the Middy representatives, and some |are inclined to give the edge to their players. | Price, the 220-pound Army tackle, is | 1arger by 30 pounds than Lou Bryan, the Navy's champion at that point, but he is the only member of the Army line that outweighs his opponent. In fact, |in the other positions the Navy has a slight advantage. Last Saturday, the Navy's forwards lutterly cutfought and overcame the linemen of Pensylvania, opening great holes almost at will and having them almost out of the running as the game ended. Also, they continually broke through and tackled behind the line or mixed up the plays. Of course, no one here thinks that the Navy forwards are going to treat the Army players that way, but they do believe that the advantage of alert- ness and aggressiveness -may incline their way and have a strong bearing on_the outcome of the game. The Navy squad had its final local | practice yesterday, a half-hour session on Farragut Field, the coaches handling the players with the greatest care. Later the squad left for New York, the regiment accompanying them to the gate and giving the players an en- thusiastic segd off. clined to believe that the battle will Army, Navy Even In Age of Teams RMY and Navy are on even terms for this year's renewal of gridiron hostilities, includ- ing age, height and weight, although some of the Cadets have experienced more foot ball servitude. ‘The Navy's one-time contention that its service rival had the advan- tage in gaining older and therefore more experienced athletes is not borne out by a comparison of the figures for this season’s talent. The rival line-ups, as they regularly took the fleld during November, showed exactly similar averages: 21 5-11 years per man. Here's the comparative table: Army. Age. Pos. Navy. Age. Messinger ..23 R. Torgerson 13 Bowstrom S MEBOE T BE "y SEpNRBEe= . B. Gannon.. 2 . B. Kirn. . Stecker Hagberg.. prmEE=Q oHE 9 'DIXIE GRID COACHES " FAVOR SPRING WORK Southern Conference Mentors Vote Unanimously for It-—Byrd Heads Organization. DURHAM, N. C., December 12 (#).— The Southern Foot Ball Coaches' As- sociation last night went on record as favoring Spring foot ball practice. ‘The vote was taken after Coach Cur- ley Byrd of Maryland said he under- stood action was to be taken in this matter today at the meeting of athletic directors and faculty representatives of ;flfi Southern Conference in Chapel 1 The motion calling for Spring prac- tice was carried unanimously, although Coach W. C. Raftery of Virginia Mili- tary Institute said it would make no difference to him if such practice were discontinued. H. C. Byrd of Maryland was elected president_of the Coaches’ Association: Harold Drew of Chattane was named vice president, and Henry Crisp of Alabama was elected secretary. 8| ‘Total .... ‘Total The Army total is unchanged by the substitution of Herb and Fields for Kilday and Stecker, the total ages for each pair being 42. He’s a Wise “Old Guy” —is Santa Claus! He knows these are no mes for frivolous gifts. Sound values in everyday needs . . . like Hahn shoes . . . will fill , every man’s cup with’ good Christmas cheer! “Flors A gift royal for BASKET BALL DROPEED. SIOUX CITY, Towa, December 12 (#). —Basket ball has been ’gm?u from the athletic program at 'y’ College in an effort to economize heims” every man—for most men prefer “Florsheims” to all other shoes. 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