Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1930, Page 41

The bening Star. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1930, G.W.and C. U.Should Have Improved Quints : Point After Touchdown May Go MATERIAL BETTER THAN LAST SEASON Both Open Their Campaigns Tonight Against Teams of Fair Caliber. BY H. C. BYRD. OTH George Washington and Catholic University, which open their basket ball schedules tonight with Bhenandoah and Maryland State Normal, teams that seem to be| something of set-ups, expect to have much better quints than those that wore their colors last season. George Washington's material is bet- ter, and it will get the benefit of con- sistent day-in-and-day-out coaching of Jim Pixlee, athletic director, who has been handling basket ball for many Catholic University is looking for a much befer season than it had last Winter, although its squad will be made up to a large extent of the sanfe men. “We have a better squad than last year and the boys are showing a fine lM.flt " said Pixlee this morning, “and I look for a better team than we had last season. It will not be any world- beater by any means, but should be strong enough to hold its own in good competition, and I think we ought to with a fair record. Anyway, I feel that we will do creditable work and come through fairly well.” Pixlee speaks conservatively everything, and this probably means thot the George Washington team will be considerably better than it has. been for several years. This does not mean, though, that a great number of games will be won, as the winning of games depends on a good deal more than hav- ing a better team. The Colonials may have a much stronger outfit than usual, and then, in meeting much stronger op- position, may not win a majority of its contests. UT at Catholic University Bergmann, who looks on basket ball as he looks on everything else, thinks that there is much more in store for the Brookland institution than it has won in the last year or so. The future ©f basket ball ‘at Catholic U. is about “Dutch” ‘Wfl: season last year,” said Bergmann morning, “and we ought to improve some on that. It was simply a case of not having the mtgrml Lhnlh}: in vious years, and no coacl pnm out a winning team if he have good material. The men at C. U. last season ought to somewhat improved, and one or two may be strengthened by acqui- sitions of freshman outfit, in which case we ought to have a better quint and better record. Anyway, we Te- gard as & year of building, and it Inl! be two years more before we reach the point we desire in our competition with other colleges. JOTH George Washington and Cath- olic University are being coached mann’s n. University had a terrible BILL BURKE, Forward. under new systems of play. The hing Catholic U, five is to be Chick Gagnon, former Holy Cross star. ln its opening line-up tonight the e Washington five is likely to start | gess, former American Univer- | l}' star, and Connor at forwards. And right here it may be mentioned that | chap Connor seems to be one of best basket ball players in these | He is pretty sure to be some- | of a star on local courts before end of the season. Mulvey will be {COUGARS PRACTICING AGAINST 'BAMA PLAYS MO ooy Will Go to Pasadena Early to Show | l center, with Fenlon and Zahn at Catholic U.'s first line-up will find two men from last year's freshman team l\m and three members of the nmty forwards. Hickey at center, Oliver and Walsh at forwards, are the ‘hile expected that -nd Spinlllfi will x‘lv! the team a good f strength In positions that last yar were weak. George Washington's game with Shen- andoah begins at 8 o'clock in the unh- | versity’s gymnasium in H street, while the Catholic University contest is sched- | uled for 9 o'clock in the gymnasium st Brookland. Catholic Unlversity has scheduled five | boxing matches for this Winter. The | first will be with Massachusetts Insti- | tute of Technology here on February 3, and then follows Hobart here on Febru- lry 7, Bucknell away on February 14, | John's here on February 19 and | Temple University here on February 28. A match is pending with Cornell on March 7. the Southern Conference has | W s rule against post-season foot | ball games, it is seldom that any | school which makes an application for permission to play after the close of | any season is denied its desire. The | latest of such post-season contests is one in which the University of Georgia | is to meet Southern California next | ear at Los Angeles. » Dean Sanford of Georgia asked the conference for permission to play the and it was granted without ques- 'l'he eunu!.s'. is to take place on san!urd believes that Georgia next hll should have one of its great- est teams, as back as members of the squad will be virtually the entire line- up of this past Fall Gecrgla Tech’s in-and-out showing Jast Pall is explained somewhat by the Ilcl that the team had little reserve . It seems that when the At- l&llh school was able to put its full strength into any game—that is, its regular line-up—it went through in shape, but when it was compelled play minus three or four regulars it fared not so well. Georgis Tech e an 1t ws about the men, and it vas al * ascribe for the fell to a point that might ‘well be described as mediocre, No team by | anxious Eager Fans What They Have for January 1 Game. By the Associated Press. 16— the fans may see his eleven in action before the New Year day game with Alabama in the Pa=adenn Rose Bowl. “Because of insistent pressure from California fans who want to see the | Cougars practice as soon as possible,” Hnlungberry said, “our traveling sched- | ule has been changed so we will leave | Portland for Pasadena December 22, 80 | we can arrive December 24.” Today the Cougars will play Alabama by proxy. Two teams will be selected, | one coached for Alabama plays, and the | next four days will be spent in per-‘ fecting an offense against the tricks | rthe Crimson Tide is expected to use. | Selection of officials for the Rose Bowl was announced as follows: Robert Evans, Milikan College, ref- eree; H. R Hutchins, Purdue, umpire; Sam Dolan, Oregon State, head lines- man, and Walter Powell, Wisconsin, field judge. Coach Hollingberry chose Hutchins and Powell from a list submitted by Grays in Court Season Debut Against St. Martin’s Tonight 'NITED TYPEWRITER GRAYS, who have “established themselves as one of the clickiest court teams of the District, tonight will make thelr sea- luminary, will jump center the Grays, while Earle’ Moser, ex- Centralite and former member of the Baltimore Orioles of the American Bas- ket ‘Ball League, and Bill Werber of Tech and Duke will hold down the | guard berths. The Mount Vernon quint had a close squeak In its opening game in the Com- munity Center l&nguc beating out the Pontiacs, 33 25, after trailing throughout the flrsl. half. Melton and McQueen, forward and | guard of the Mount Vernons, led the winners’ attack, with 11 and 10 points, respectively. Unable to sf Stewart, speedy for- ward, who registered 14 points, the Laurel Independents dropped a - | fought 27-22 decision to the Church of | Messiah five of Baltimore. Headquarters Company, National Guard, of Laurel defeated Company M team of National Guard of Annapolis in the nther game of the double-header, Wallace Wade, head coach at Alabama, | 37 0 2 | and Wade chose the other two from a list made up by Hollingberry. — CENTS AFTER MERCURYS Little Gridders Eager to Battle Un- limited Eleven. Centennials, winners of the Capital City Foot Ball League 150-pound title, have defied Mercurys, unlimited champs | in the same league, to a clash. Manager | Reed of the Cents may be reached at Columbia 3314. Mohawks and St. Mary's Celtics of HE undefeated Saks Clothiers will be gunning for their seventh straight victory tonight when v.hey clash with the Eastern in_the Eastern gym at 9 o'cl . Dick Mothershead is booking games at Dis- trict 3050. With Babe Clapper, of sandlot base ball fame, leading its attack, the Pull- man quint last night defeated the Phi Sigma Kappa tossers, 15 to 9. Clapper scored six points. Turning back the Mercurys, 20 to 16, the Aces won their fourth straight game at Central High School. Alexandria will face Sunday in Griffith Stadium, it has been announced. in the are very certain voted out of ex- istence. mmmuhmmnmue the South Atlantic and HITESTONE JUNIORS were no match for the St. Martin's five, h"l bemn 20 to 12. Army \lD ln im- przulve vicwq Grays into camp by 48 = i Earl Moser is booking games for his Census Enumerators. ~He may be reached at National 2082, Branch 198. o'clock. Af! 1"co(: ter 6 Western Electric cagers triumphed over Atonement, 19 to 15. MMACULATE, CONCEPTION 135- mnden were a little too tough for Knights (colummncm Club. 0 | and. the latier was defeated, 34 1o smmummmmum to the Potomac Boat Club tossers to- it at the ¥, M. C. A gym at § | at Northwestern this afternoon. Kensington National Guards are look- ing for games with unlimited quints. Call Manager Stone at Rockville 323. Games are sought by the Cardinals. Cfllumlmlflar!o'clock. ALL-EAST GRIDDERS START WEST TODAY Practice at Northwestern, Then Head for Pacific Coast for December 27 Game. 8y the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 16.—Twenty- two Eastern and Big Ten university foot ball stars, under the direction of cmchu Andy Kerr of Colgate and Dick Hanley of Nonhweuum, will leave tonight lor San PFran to meet Far Western stars in the annual Shrine hospital benefit game December 27. Twelve of the athletes are from the Euc with the Big Ten supplying 10. pncuce session and issuing of equip- ment was scheduled for Dyche Stadium The contest will be the sixth of the senes. in which the Far West has tri- Phed three times. The Eastern dele- scored its victories in 1928 and 20 Years Ago (In The Star) Fallure of Jim McAleer, manager of the Washington base ball team, to make any trades at the gathering of American League club owners at New York is & bitter disappointment to McAleer and local patrons of the game. but there was no chnnee. of course, of -ny one getting the I phe- Ba'l!nl is having s Among_the IMH in _opera- Ilm are the Commercial, Columbia, Plate Printers, Ndflhell'&m, North- western, District. ¥. M. . QUARTET OF CENTRAL HIGH’S BASKET BALL AMBITIOUS ATHLETES HYATTSVILI.E QUINT PRIMED FOR START High School Tossers Will Face Business Tomorrow—Full Sched- ule Is Announced. HYATTSVILLE, Md., December 16.— Coach summ:n Jenkins has Just about decided the make-up of the !!yau‘vule High School team which will take the floor of wuh!nzum the National Guard Armory here at 3:30 o’'clock. York Hollingsworth and Alvin Mc- Chesney likely will start at forwards, Warren Evans at center and Curley Byrd, jr., and Burdette Cogar at guards. Others who probably will see action during the game are Warren Kidwell, forward, and Coleman Headley and Carleton Heyser, guards. Vincent Stevens and Robert Newell, centers, and Willilam McClay, forward, also may be given a chance. Hyattsville’s quint also will play again this week, being down to entertain Catonsville, Md.,” High in the Armory Pricay afternoon. Hyattsville gl!ls’ team also will engage the Catonsville lassles as a part of a double-header. ‘The Hyattsville teams originally were slated to go to Catonsville Friday. They will go there, according to new plans, January 1. Other games on the completed sched- ule of the Hyattsville boys' team, as announced today by Manager Jack Fitzsimmons, follow: December 23—Washington Central. January 6—Tech at Washington. January 16—St. John's. January 20—Woodward. January 22—Towwn High at Tow- son, Md. January 2'141[\!9'!’ Spring/ High. January 28—Business at January 30—Charlotte Hi lotte Hall. February 3—Rockville High. February 5—Tech. February 6—St. Albans. mrebrul.ry 10—Woodward at Washing- n. February 11—Towson High. February 20—Charlotte Hall. rehnu.ry 25—Rockville High at Rock- shbmny 27—Sllver Spring at Stlver COLUMBUS U. DEFEATED click until nhlncton High gym The visitors from Dayton, Vl.. up a commanding lead early game. The belated rally ot the uuurs fell far short. Plant, guard, led the ‘Columbus attack with 7 points. Shenandgah. GF.Pts, Columbys Brown. 1, 1 I COACHES DECLARED AS OPPOSED T0 I Standard Plan of Compiling|» Statistics on Games Is Seen as Big Need. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, December 16.— From the host of foot ball players, coaches and en- thusiasts generally from all parts of the country who have been in New York for December| "% games, much talk, many opinions, all sorts of comment concerning foot ball have been gathered by |af the writer. Primarily it may be said that sooner the Rules Committee ditches the point after touchdown the better pleased most coaches and officials will be, Otherwise there is little or no dis- satisfaction with the rules as they stand, save a growing opinion that some way or other the forward pass should hn\e its wings cli ? ‘Then, too, there is a feeling that some officials take themselves too seriously, that they are ruining foot ball as a game by too great a tendency toward comma hunting. They maintain the rizidny of a martinet in enforcing little points in the way of violation where tbe lnfient to observe the rules was perfectly clear and merely a slip has occurred which has done no harm to . this the game is official- Hdden, llowzd up and made vexing to players and tedious to spectators. Many fine officials do not do this; they 1eel that the best arbiters are those W make their presence m t.he fleld as lmle b mmz m"b'e ]:n others games| Ngs more han players and that unless they stand rmh !n the clear with letier 5t Tules, they are.osing oppor- T of 3 are oppor- tunities to shine. And Harry Stuhldreher has s great idea concern umpires. In view of the nature of ir duties he believes that umpires l}w\&dfi: cmlxg:}lln among groups of officials w] € ence as players has been in the line, Anyone can see the common sense of mu uufifim without the necessity of Anot.her suggestion which has met with favor is that of John W. Stahr of South Bend, Ind., who seeks to correct the variations in statistics which puzzle the public and foot ball men week after week. He proposes that a standard !om!ormumuhammdwmt & box score of & foot ball game may be compiled with the emhlency and uni- 1orAn.my of the base ball box score. Others do not. Some include yardage made a player on a play which is called b&ck because of penalty; others do not. Some figure distance on punts from the spot where the ball was kicked; others measure it from the line of scrimmage. Some interpret a pass which is declared complete because of interference as a completed pass, while others list it as a penalty. Some make a distinction between a lateral pass play and a straight running play, and oth- ers do not. So we have tables filled with discrep- mm Stahr thinks that this should be corrected and there are many who agree with him. He thinks that the Rules Committee or the associations of officials might appoint a board of offi- cial scorers to devise a method of com- pfllng statistics that would be stand- ard. Or, as an alternative, he suggests that the Rules Committee append a definite code for the taking of statistics to the stipulations as they appear in the foot ball xulde A. A. U. TO REGISTER DISTRICT BASKETERS Teams Must Fall in Line for An- nual Tourney—Asked to Check Opponents. Hoping to prevent violations of the amateur code, the board of managers of the District branch of the Amateur “Athletic, Union last night issued a warn- ing to all managers of basket ball teams in this territory to have all un- registered pllym take out registrations in order to zfin eligibility to compete with affiliated teams. The A. A. U. group, meeting in the monthly confab, also made preliminary. plans for the second annual District of Columbia basket ball championships and formulated & set of rules to govern teams planning to enter the tourna- ment. These rules, which teams are to live up to until the tourney starts in March, follow: 1—Have all members not registered to upply at once for registration. e games only with teams whme players are registered in the A. a—n lanning to play games out of the D]lgklnt of Columbia territory, teams must obtain traveling permits from the registration chairman and In- &f on opponents being registered in ir own association. rs must have cards !orfllwummem nmdmflnmln- specting cards of opponents before each game. William E. Russell is the reghf,u. tion chairman. Players and teams ma be r:zllwr\:d at 1503 North Clplwl street Plans also were made for a hand ball tournament championship and a box- NEW YORK SEEKING G. U. FROSH PLAY TERPS Games Feature Remainder of Card Arranged for Hoya Yearlings. Two games with the University of Mnryhnd Freshmen are bright spots on the Georgetown Freshmen basket ball card, which has been completed by H. Gm Murphy, graduate manager of The Hilltoppers, victorious in their first two starts against Central and Eastern High Schools, will clash with the Terrapins on January 17 and Feb. ruary 19 at Tech High and College Park, respectively. Eight games in all remain on the G. U. cubs’ schedule, which follows: January 16—Devitt Prep, at Tech. Jan\ury 17—Maryland Freshmen, at Jlnunry 21—Strayer’s Business Col- lege, at Tech. Jnnulryfls—mlll Electrical School, Febr\ury 6—Tech High School, at Fobru 9—Gonzaga, at Tech. l"ebruary 19—Maryland Freshmen, at College Park. Pebrunyzl—nuu Electrical School, ANOTHER BENEFIT LINE ON TECH FIVE INC. . CUB CLASH Team’s Public High Title Chance May Be Revealed in Tilt Tomorrow. S predictions as to the winner of the public high basket ball title in the series starting next month after tomorrow's game between Tech, the defend- ing champion, and Catholic Uni- versity Freshmen in the Tech gym at 3:30 o'clock. It will be the opening match of the campaign for the McKinley quint, which is the last of the public high group to start its schedule. An idea as to how much, if any, Tech has been hurt through the loss by graduation of Bob MacCartee, George Lassise, Jake Olverson, George Talburtt and Tom Wilson doubtless may be had CHOOLBOY sports followers probably will be out with Fifth Charity Foot Ball Game Unlikely, However, Be- cause of Cold. By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, December 16.—Some- thing like $850,000 has been earned for the unemployment fund by four benefit foot ball games in New York and negotiations are under way for a fifth that might boost the total past the million-dollar mrk arrangements have been lnlfltu'ad by the New Yo‘l‘k Chapter, anht.s of Columbus, in conjunction American Legion and the mployed, for & game between a combination of Northern eoIIeze stars and a similar team from the South here December 27, Plans for the contest are in a nebulous state at present and even the sponsors themulveu are nnt too certain whether game can played. Difficulties hnve arisen in nmn g up {Jhyers and in securing a suitable ma lum. =~ Adverse weather conditions also might be met with so late in December in this sec- tion ot t.be eountry. ‘The four games so' far played here have earned an official aggregate of $838,000, divided as follows: Army-Navy, $600,000; Notre Dame All Stars-New York Giants, $115,000; New Unit te, $73,467; New hmen-Fordham figures for the Army-Navy game and it was hoped the final returns might boost the total recelnm Beyond the preliminary estimate | of $600,000. LEADS IN TURF WINNINGS ‘Woodward’s Total Is Earned Main- 1y by Gallant Fox. NEW YORK, December 16 (#)-—- Chiefly through the exploits of Gallant Fox, Willilam Woodward heads the list of owners in turf winnings this season. Woodward's stable earned $350,970, o‘fsn:gl_fsh Gallant Fox accounted for after the tilt with the Cardinal cubs. Seasoned bulwarks of the McKinley squad include Everett (Honeyboy) Russell, captain and forward; Mal johns, guard and cenler. Everett Johnlcm guard; Bernie Reichhardt, Jimmy Reed nnd ‘Wheeler, forwards, and Buck Beach, center. In other schoolboy court games here- about tomorrow Hyattsville High and Business High will meet at the armory at Hyattsville, and Gonzaga and an alumni combination of that school will clash in the I street school gym. don showed ty of fight against welbern in their E?n ball game yes- terday in the Western lym but was gnefllly outclassed, as wn _scholastics won, 20 “‘Fne line-ups: Taylor, Lawder, &. Business basketers, strongly in defeat days ago, will face freshmen in the C. Cardinal Varsity-] game. In matches listed this ‘West- em-nnwwdnmmbtman.he Y. M. C. A, Eastern and Unite writer Gra; Frep andFock Eaemn. High ot fon-Lee sigh PITT FIVE GOES WEST Basketers Leaving Home for Tour of Three Games. Soma of Pitss " M"‘?v_ e of 's young men it today to play basket ball “ Tt where last year’ lmtyflvammhn- Bully Idea! W hy not give ing championship. The committee on the latter was instructed by President John D. O'Rellly to make its report not later than Monday. —_— NO SPORT FOR IRISH Another Big Ten Basket Ball Five Licks Notre Dame Qujnt. piled o in_the $|the Irish in basket Purdue, winner of the 1929-30 Big Ten title, accounted for the league’s second _triumph of the season over ; | Notre Dame last night at Lafayette, 34 to 22. Last week al!’omwuum the Man a pair or two of FLORSHEIMS for Christmas! COMFORTABLE WINTERWEIGHT FLORSHEIM SHOES You can't help but like these smart rugged shoes—they offer more miles per dollar, more com- fortable anddependable service. For health’s sake, also for ap- pearance sake change to these heavier, sturdy Florsheims now