Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1930, Page 33

| i B 000 NETTED ~ BY SERVICE CLASH; . 50,000 See Rockne’s Stars « Lose Game to Pros That Brings in $150,000. BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 15.— N Foot ball's dying gasp in the East added something like three-quarters of a million dollars to the fund for the unemployed over the week end. To the approximate $600,000 earned by the Army-Navy ‘game at the Yankee Stadium Saturday was added another $150,000 yes- terday when the New York Giants of the National Professional Foot " Ball League conquered Knute Rockne’s Notre Dame All-Stars, 22 to 0, before 50,000 excited spec- tators at the Polo Grounds. Pinal financial figures on the two gmu were not available immediately, t it was estimated they would reveal profits not in excess of $750,000. The Giants' victory over Rockne's tion was a triumph for well it teamwork over amm;‘mn. '21:5- I e All-SIare: Lne-up &% vatous b But this collection of notables at no Vet Sold by Griffmen T//I - MUDDY RUEL. FAST QUINT LIKELY AT NORTHWESTERN Picked to Fight Wisconsin and llini for Big Ten Basket Ball Title. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. HICAGO, December 15.—North- western University, with a share of the Western Conference foot ' time was able to cope with the brilliant | B2IE® offense and defense of the Giants, one game. Benny Friedman, Michigan's former All-America quarterback, scored two touchdowns for the Giants and Wwas a constant threat every minute he was in the . His of the finest pro outfits in | TCe 0 i g IN NATIONAL LEAGUE | b teome sz Teams Clustered, With Canadiens, Blackhawks and Bruins Setting Pace. By the Associated Press. came to tie Chicago for the American sw lead as the pre- Blackhawk attack was are scheduled for tonight. ding: Canadian Divisien. og. Pl =y suser BIG TEN BASKET CHAMP PLAYS IRISH IN OPENER Purdue, With Only Two Veterans in Line-up, Expected to Win Easily Tonight. CHICAGO, December 15 (#).—Pur- due, 1929-30 Big Ten basket ball cham- plon, will give an sdvance showing of this season's style of basket ball to- its season at Lafayette Dame. graduation took including Branc! center. away four letter men, h a great Michigan's team will be handicapped he Foening Sfar. WASHINGTON, D, (. RUEL, NAT CATCHER, 15 SOLD T0 RED 30X Star With Griffmen Eight Seasons Goes to Boston Club Outright. EROLD D. RUEL, once an iron man among American League catchers, no longer is a member of the Wash- ington base ball club. 2 Muddy, ever popular here dur- ing his eight-season term, this morning was sold to the Boston Red Sox, the club the Nationals got him from after the season of 1922. According to Clark Griffith, Washington president, the trans- fer of Ruel to the Red Sox is out- right and on a cash basis, but no price is announced. Despite his slight stature, Ruel, who will be 35 years old February 20, next, ::t.chb:;n a nm;m among big leu!ule through a dozen seasons. He became a first-string receiver with the Yankees din 1919 nl-xd m:lnce huwheen Tecognized as one o best catchers in_the business. For eight consecutive seasons Muddy worked in more than 100 games a sea- son, & record few other league re- celvers can show. He s with the i £ G B ] s HE Army-Navy battle showed again how thin the line is be- one tinged with indigo. The Army team was only 1 point away from an unbeaten season. The Navy had a stormy march from start to finish. Yet when the closing whistle Just 6 points apart. And the Army had to scrap and hustle to the final play be |0 Win. When you consider the fact sopho- | more, who never played high school basket ball, develops, the Maroons may give their opponents considerable trouble. At Iowa, where Rollie Williams starts his first year as head coach in Big Ten competition, & new team must be built, as most of the veterans were swe away by ineligibilities when the Hawk- eyes had their big clean-up. ‘There will be few -scraping cen- ters in the Big Ten season and the lack of men like Murphy and Mc- Cracken will make for & more even race. Attendance at the preliminary games in the Conference shows tremendous interest in the sport and the dedication of the new Wisconsin fleld house, Thurs- day night, when Pennsylvania the’ Badgers, will draw a crowd of 8,500, 20 Years Ago that this game was well beyond the scheduled season and past all original on a remarkable first year for any All the more s0 in view of the fact he gave the Army a new system of fense, which is no easy thing to do in one campaign. And beating the Navy Job on Saturday. The -.n:l coming line-up, 'bom pl out against a bigger, that is just about as as an forwards 1930 foot ball can . - flr;ll ‘nc:xvln o'll}fi of Nfll total y rushing, on the Navy's part, some high-class backs lugging the Kirn, and o ‘The Navy did emmfl well under the circumstances, and only the agili and swiftness of Ray Stecker gave the Army its chance to cash in on a su) s;gga A R [y 1§ o SR 1 13 } blew on Saturday the two teams were | do TO_NEW PASTURE Conth WALLACE AVE <= GOES TO VUKE AFTER. AN S. UNDEFEATED SEASON AT ALABAMA / SINCE COMING TO ALQEVAEMQ V/AN DEGSA-EAMS o 0, OF HEIR GAMES [ ] = < e /7 MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1930. = —By PAP AE SAYS NE LIKES B8I6, FAST ea-ra‘.’ ** NO NAVY WEAKNESS SEEN |CUE TITLE MEET Now -+AS AN ARMY BATTLE BAR| THREE-WAY CONTEST Quality of Middy Players Indicates Overemphasis of Advantage West Point May Get From More Liberal Foot Ball Eligibility Code. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, December 15.—The aftermath of that Army-Navy game is laden chiefly with regret that this highly colorful grid- iron association is not to continue. Here is natural rivalry, bulwarked by tradition and sanctioned by the high, brave spirit which always has charac- terized it in all its manifestations. If the service academies cannot play Dt Teipect and Gatecm smer oty these institutions, which should stand before the youth as patterns and exam- les, are f: to 1ves. B s Deer sald that whes the presee feeling subsides relationship on m:g played the Army top{ would have at least tween a rose-colored season and | key h ros- to jump inm!hen?.&d‘i:"ofthz and steal the show. And it 'm'}mmemothnywngnmmw The Unlucky Brand. chaooomfllhlfldcmnhh name to sofhe other brand of candy. He might try Young Bon o Bon or something like that. In his last three big fights he has deserved no worse than a draw in two . | of them and has lost all three. He de- | sci served no worse than a draw against Battalino and the majority of boxing writers I have talked to gave him the winning edge. But that doesn’t alter the fact that he was again pushed over on the losing side. Foot Ball Coaches. student revolt in foot ball hasn’t g%nellon; way, but it has started. e time is passing of sport will be restored. Il feeling, & writer bell:;:. edmr.l‘:h subsided. iturday’s game W 3 Nothing could have been finer than the action of the Navy players the instant the final whistle blew in sel eeting this spon- taneous good fellowship, which was wholesome and flawless. Navy Not Outclassed. This game can be played and should be played every year. If Saturday's game. demonstrated one thing it was the Navy players are not outclassed by West Point, differ the rules of eligibility as_they may. ‘The fact is that the Navy now—and always has—drawn superior secondary draws a superior of youth for the reason that Navy to the e has a more domi- imagination of boys had the Navy in 1928 and 1920 she broken even in these two games despite diverging eligibility rules. ‘Why cannot the Navy try out the matter, playing the Army on terms that now exist. Many competent judges of foot ball are convin she would win as many games as she would lose, bas- ing judgment chiefly upon the fact that the Navy is in a better position to grad- uate the severity of her games than the Army. In any case were the Navy to be out- classed, which she never yet has been, ml:l! ;mhlmeu of wmbpetl:}:m 'fiw cl ly be recognized by e public, ihmuw on inequalities would speedily justed. If it is asserted that in meeting Army under existing conditions the Navy would stand as going back on her prin- ciples, answer might be made that such charge would be vailed only if she re- inded her own eligibility standards. Yale, Harvard and other colleges, whose rules differ from those of Army, play the Cadets with no feeling that they have done violence to thei The main is to 's record of first downs was sig- hartonidh iay troos s i P rom sf » back, which resulted in a m%hdorn, was su| done. In m the line blocking gave Stecker his chance, while his speed and head work stood him in stead once he had got into the secondary and terri- nrym.ph e z mETE e mflmmm@u his men with indomitable as that Navy 3 school material, just as the enlisted force | are Rudolph, Greenleaf and Lauri Shine in Pocket Billiards Tournament. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 15.—The bat- iph. 3 hampion, and Onofrio Lauri of New York, a declded “dark horse.” Rudolph upset Frank Taberski of Schenectady, N. Y., 125 to 70, in 19 tl.ut night to his fourth strai starts. ‘The situation ‘may be clarified to- night, when Rudolph and Lauri clash in the day's most important match. Other matches foday bring together Feature Goose for Cobb 2 Years on Way UGUSTA, Ga., December 15 (). & Biblical quotation, “Be not afraid; only believe.” ‘The goose was shot near here by a of hunters including Jack tree, McAlpine Rucker and Charles Piicher. The nimrods, - ing of the friendship between Cobb and Miner, presen! the bird to the famous Augustan. Miner was notified FRIEDNAN, CANNON s and Classified STILL GRID GREATS Ex-Michigan Man Star in Attack—Irish Guard Is Defense Marvel. —_— BY WALTER TRUMBULL. EW YORK, December 15— I really could quote almost any number of opinions of the foot ball game that the New York Giants and the Notre Dame Stars played for charity. And all of them would be favor- able. “It’s the best foot ball game I have seen this season,” said James J. Walker, mayor of New York. And he meant what he sald. His | ] PAGE C—1 Unemployed Fund Is Enriched $750,000 by Two Final Foot Ball Games in East 6.W. C. U. QUINTS START TOMORROW Columbus U. Tonight Faces Shenandoah—Other D. C. Fives Idle. HENANDOAH COLLEGE basket ball team of Dayton, Va., will show its wares here tonight and tomorrow night. Tonight the team- from the Old Dominion will engage Columbus Univer- sity at 9 o'clock on the Central High floor and tomorrow night will face George Washington in the G. W. gym. It will be the opening game for the Colonials, whose team is made up largely of sophomores. However, Burgess and Connor, clever forwards of last Winter's Colonial quint, are expected to start against Shenandoah. § Catholic University's five h:II.I ."“i its camj tomorrow agains! u..ryhns‘ g‘fiu Normal :e‘gool in the Brookland American U. beat the Normal ch outit, 37 to 13, last week. The Cards have been bolstered the recent return of John season’s e honor thoroughly enjoyed the yet started game. He saw it from a box di- rectly back of where Knute Rockne sat on the side lines. gigi-g=geas rekilh E [ g k z i s | i E%; gEE | H Eh 55.5 £ E B Greenleaf and Arthur Woods of New |ion York, who holds fourth place, and R e, 3 S in the depths. Nad has lost 4 straight games and Boatman 4 out of 5. BASKET BALL TIPS BY SOL METZGER in this rd, for example, the No. 1 player ;‘the uketcxl:‘ b‘;!m for the basket. ally at nack will make a quick pfvot, thus turning his back on the defensive oppo &nced]n him. The ball is u-:umg No. l.' as he completes this turn. . 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