Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1930, Page 43

‘ Sports News I @hfi WASHINGTON, D G, FRIDAY, pening Star., WITHE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION DECEMBER 19, 1930. F eétures and Classified Public Is Misled Over Grid Receipts : Alabama Starts for Big Game on Coast CROWD ESTIMATES VASTLY INFLATED Few Schools Make Big Sums, but Most Struggle to Meet Expenses. BY H. C. BYRD. ROBABLY there is no phase P of college athletics in which so great a misconception exists in the public mind as that concerned with the amount of money made by foot ball games through gate receipts. So much has been said of the great crowds and the tremendous sums realized at the gate that the idea seems to be growing in the popular mind ‘that all the college foot ball teams of the country are the sources of gold in fabulous quantities. Nothing ever was further from the actual situation. True it is that there are some few schools, and very few at that, which do realize big sums from foot ball. Yale, Harvard and Pennsylvania in the East, Notre Dame in the Middle West and possibly one or two others, and South- ern California in the Far West are notable examples of schools whose ath- letic treasuries are full to the over- flowing at the close of each gridiron season, but consider those that are not. |, Throughout the entire Nation there are hundreds of colleges that have the hardest kind of a time making both ends meet, and the great majority wind up their financial years in the red. Much is written of | gates are drawn, but very little of the others. So much is written of the big crowds when Harvard and Yale meet, when Notre Dame and Army play, when Stan- ford goes against Southern California that it seems to the public that this game of foot ball must be a source of unlimited wealth. However, if one of these people so minded were to un- dertake to finance a year of college athletics in any of three or four hun- dred colleges he would learn a good deal. Bad Weather Hurts. Leaving out the few schools. probably Rumbering not more than 25 for the whole ccuntry, if that' many, that do make big money out of foot ball, it may safely be said that all the others find it exceedingly difficult to flnIane their pre . Most of them usually de- pend on one, sometimes two, games to get enough receipts to make up for other games which yield little or ng, and in any season when bad mer happens to come along on the day of this big game, as the aviation pilots say when asked what happens in the air when a wing breaks, “it's just Let some one right now ask University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Insti- tute, North Carolina State College, Brown, Purdue, Nebraska, Oregon or any of the schools scattered throughout the country where they stand financially, and in all probability the answer will be just about the same in substance, “we hardly know how we are going to get by.” There is a good deal of rivalry be- tween Virginia and Washington and Lee. Anybody naturally would think a foot ball game betwen them would yield sufficient revenue to help carry on some other sports, but as a matter of fact Virginia_actually lost money on that ame this year. Take Georgetown, Elthl)llc University, George Washington, for instance; the chances are that foot ball in these schools over a period of the last seven or eight years has hardly done more than pay its own way. ; Lean Grid Year. | ‘The last year probably has been the | worst that college foot ball generally | has experienced in % long while. No doubt this is due somewhat to the gen- eral business depression, but the funda- mental factor in the situation is that foot ball at the great majority of schools simply ldcog ot yl%ldwme revenue it yular] suppose 3 D othar factor wiiicls gives the pub- Hc a wrong impression of the amounts yielded through receipts at foot ball games 1s the very general overestimates the games where big | § HARRY WOLFE. COACHES T0 MEET Talks on Various Phases of Game Will Mark Confab on December 29, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 19.—Coaches from all sections of the country will gather here December 29 for the tenth placed on attendance by the news- papers. It seems, in the mind of the' men who cover games, that the bigger the crowd the better should be the, story. so a generous estimate is placed | on the crowd. Almost any game is an example of this, as many of the| stadiums that house foot ball crowds do | not take care of as many persons as| they are supposed to, but almost any game where the stands are not half full’ or much more than half full stands out as a glaring example. Take, for in- stance, a game played between two big| teams this last Fall in a nearby city. In that the newspapers all carried stories to the effect that 40,000 persons were present, when actually the number of paid admissions was less than 21,000 Another big game which the pape! stated a crowd of 20,000 watched a tually had present only a little more | than 7,000 paid admissions. One big game in the State of Virginia which stories on the sports pages stated had an attendance of 10,000, really had a paid attendance of less than 4,000. Reader Is Misled. Naturally the reader of sports sheets, when he sees it stated that a crowd of 40,000 attended a game, and he knows that the admission to that game was $3 and $2, thinks that $80,000 or more passed into the box office. The reader sees that a crowd of 10,000 attended a game in Virginia for which the admis- sion was $2, and naturally it comes to his mind that $20,000, or thereabouts, passed into the coffers of the two con- | tending universities, when actually the| paid attendance was only 3,900. Now, do a little simple arithmetic. ‘The 3,900 paid in a total of $7,800, in- stead of the $20,000, under newspaper estimate. From that $7,800 had to be deducted 10 per cent for the use of the park, expenses for officials and | other expenses incident to running a | Elme. such as advertising, ushers, gate- eepers, ticket sellers, etc., so that the net receipts for the two teams dwindled to about $6.400 or $3,200 each. Now, if it costs a team, including ex- nses for the university band, say, 1,500 to get to the place of the game, the actual net receipts of that particu- lar game for one of the schools dwindle t0 $1,700. 8o an analysis of this game— and this is an analysis of a game actu- ally playeg last Fall, and it is typical of hundreds of others—shows that in- stead of getting the proceeds of a $20,000 gate, such as the reader might readily conclude from the facts as| stated in the sports pages, the schools each profit to the extent of $1,700, which makes the actual facts quite different from the conclusions one ht easily draw from published ac- |the game by leading coaches. | banks that help out in the pinches annual meeting of the American Foot Ball Coaches’ Assoclation. Proposed changes in the rules will be discussed. The morning sessions will be devoted to the reading cf various reports. George Clark of Butler Uni- versity will report for the trustees; Coach Harry G. Kipke of the University | of Michigan on membership, William J. Bingham of Harvard on coaching eth- ics, Hugo Bezdek of Penn State for the stabilizing committee, D. O. McLaughry of Brown University on foot ball of- ficiating. The report of delegates to the foot ball rules meeting will be presented by Dr. J. B. Sutherland of the Univer- | sity of Pittsburgh. | In the afternoon sessicn there will be 15-minute talks on various phases of Adam | Walsh of Yale will speak on “Snapping | the Ball”; Sam Willaman, Ohio State, on “Spinners and Fakes"; W. S. Collins, Northwestern, on “End Play,” and A. M. McMillin, Kansas Aggies, 6n’*Back- field Play.” Knute Rockne is to be toastmaster at | the annual “Brown Derby” banquet in | the evening. . 18 MORE TILTS LISTED FOR ALEXANDRIA HIGH ALEXANDRIA, Va. December 19.— Athletic Director Maurice Given an- nounced today that he has just com- pleted a schedule of 18 more games for his Alexandria High School cagers, who dropped their opening contest to Western High School in Washington yesterday afternoon | The first home game appearing on the card is the battle with Central High of Washington which will be played in the Armory Hall at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow night, with a pre- liminary contest between the Alexan- dria High School Girls and the Alumnae Sextette. The remainder of the schedule fol- lows: January—8, Salem High at Salem; 9. Roa- noke College Prosh at Roanoke; 10, Jeffersol High School a Central High at Washineton; 17, d " School: 20, Manassas High at Manassas; 23, Fre - burg High at Predericksburg: '24. High: Esstern High st ; 13, Pred Woodward 8chool 3t burg High: ington: at i 27, Western St John's Colles ton; 30, Washington-Lee Hig High. there would be many bills unpaid. Foot ball, in the '5::!'. majority of colleges and universities, is far from the gold counts of games. In reality, the average man trusted with the'fi:h of financing foot ball and college athletics usually is hard put to make both ends come anywhere near together. And were it not for ‘friendly mine many think it is, and when ath- letic directors and athletic committees read that foot ball is too commercialized they usually scratch thelr heads, blink & few times and wonder how and why. / THEY SET FOUR-YEAR RECORD FOR COHES HUGH WALDROP. NESS IN BOB McCALL. R | eee S W Boonl None Association and International Ready to Desert Coast League and Make Peace With Majors. BY JOE VILA. EW YORK, December 10.— The serio-comic base ball war, which flared up in somewhat startling fashion when the thofoughly aroused rep- resentatives of the class AA leagues stormed out of their meeting with the major leagues last week, fast approaches a settlement. It became known today that the International League and the Ameri- can Association, abandoning hope of successfully combating the big fel- lows, are to hold a joint meeting on January 7 to formulate plans for reopening peace negotiations. This, of course, will mean a prac- tical desertion of the Pacific Coast League, but there is a feeling on the part of most of the Interna- tional League and American Asso- clation club owners that they were led astray by the Coast Leaguers and that the only way to get back on the right track is to shake off their false guides. According to & big league club owner who sat in at the session at the Roosevelt, the sentiment among a majority of the minor leaguers was for peace at almost any price, and that this was as true of the “Coast ‘ delégates as it was of those from the East and the Middle West. However, according to this versicn of what took place, when the spokesman for the minor leagues got the floor he proceeded to involve himself and his associates in a situ- ation from which they could with- draw only while shouting deflance, as for them to have capitulated after the spokesman had finished would have been to sacrifice their dignity. ‘The passing of a week, it seems, 20 Years Ago In The Star Doc Gessler, outfielder, seems as- sured of another trial with the Washington base ball team next sea- son, according to J. Ed Grillo, The Star's sports editor. Had Manager Jim McAleer been able to secure a first-class outfielder during the re- cent American League meeting at New York Gessler likely would have gone elsewhere, moanur‘- batting last season. . lie Hoppe, world champion bil- liard player, will appear at the Royal tonight and tomorrow. Frank Sher- man of the Royal has picked Charley ‘Wolf, one of the c:{'.y’s best amateur cuelsts, to oppose Hopp:. Georgstonny Univeraty will hold its fourth annual meet tonight in Ryan gym with Prof. Maurice A. Joyce as referee and starter. Other officials will be Thomas Jessup, clerk of the course; W. C. Thatcher, head judge; John F. Crosby and Leo F. Joliat, assistant judges; Norman Wymard, F. A. Dempsey and James Mulligan, timers; Gibbs and Norman Gloetzner, scoz has cooled the ardor of the insur- rectos. Also, it seems to have taken intent upon forc- heir will on the minors, and the minors, cognizant of this and lulled by the voice of their spokes- men, found themselves in a battle almost before they realized it. {HALF-CHAMPIONSHIP TO SEAMAN GUNNERS Apaches Don’t Mind Sharing Foot Ball Laurels With Snappy rvice Eleven. Seaman Gunners, as far as the Apaches are concerned, are co-holders of the District sandlot foot ball cham- plonship. Manager Seymour Hall of the Little Indians, yesterday was reported to have sent & letter to the Gunner camp recognizing the Sallors as co-holders with the Apaches in view of thetr record and the inability of these two clubs to hook up. The Seaman Gunners were defeated that was by the St. Celtics and Marines agreed to play under the former's name. The Apaches also were beaten by the Celtics, but that was last week, when “Peggy” O'Nelll and Gotko et al. were present. The Apaches beat the Celtics when the latter used most of the players who defeated the Gunners. So with this in mind, sandlot fans are forming their own opinions about which s the champlon, but as far as the Apaches are concerned, the Gunners rate half of it. *‘And the Gunners, with the “half a loaf is better than none” adage in their minds, gladly received the honor. Now that Mohawks and St. Mary's Celtics are to close the season Sunday at Grimth Stadium, Prof. Patsy Donovan of the Hawks is becoming vigorous in his denials his team is “padding” for the game. Patsy fully expects the Celtics to produce the Marines Sunday, but as far as he's concerned, the Hawks, with the exception of two players, will remain intact. ‘The championship of “Southeast Washington” will be at stake Sunday, when the Wolverines and Quentins clash on the Silver S fleld, according to followers of botgr‘;‘mpu. +Northern Preps, who hurled a chal- lenge to Dor-A of Hyattsville, have been taken up by that team and will be at Riverdale Sunday at 2:30 THREE PIN LOOPS B HORACE SNOWDEN. These Dixie Pigs, now members of the Prince Georges County, North of |5 BUSINESS QUINTET OF TITLE STRENGTH Shows Power Against G. W. Frosh—Emerson, Western and Woodward Win. USINESS, Business, may soon reach the end of the rainbow and find there a public high school championship. Last season the Stenogs gave| everybody concerned plenty of | real worry in the bdsket ball series. They defeated Tech, the champion, in one game and went down in several others only after furious battling. There is no question that Business got some mighty tough hreaks last Win- ter. Should the well known worm turn and the Stenogs are reasonably fortu- nate they're going to b> awful hard to beat in the coming series. Against George Washington’s Fresh- men yesterday the Stenogs showed plenty of strength and fight. Led by Bobbie Lucas, wily little forward, they ve the Colonials a rousing struggle, losing 19 to 20. In other scholastic games yesterday, Central defeated Emerson, 26 to 19, for the second time; Western walloped Alexandria High, 36 to 19, and Wood- ward surprised with a 20-9 win over town Prep. At the half, G. W. Freshmen were heading Business, 10 to 7. They went on to increase their lead to 18 to 12. ‘Then in the final few minutes Business began shelling the Colonial basket, but was not quite able to overcome the 6-point lead. Line-ups: G. W. 0. Business Washington and Columbia Heights P Leagues, have bowled together for four | S years, and in that time have used only one substitution. They have won three pennants and have never been worse than second. They're priming now for the next major event of the season, The Evening Star Yuletide singles tourna- ment, entries for which close Saturday night. Competition, at the Coliseum, will get under way December 26. 6. W. O ENTERTAIN BALTIMORE . FIVE Tonight’s Clash Last Here Before Holidays—Hoyas, Cards Make Trips. OCAL college basket ball fans will have their last opportunity to look over a District collegiate quint before the holiday lull to- night, when Coach Jim Pixlee's George Washington basketers face the Univer- sity of Baltimore tossers in the Colonial gym at 8 o'clock. ‘The Colonials will be gunning for their second straight win of the season, having defeated Shenandoah in their opening tilt last week. The Baltimoreans, 37-t0-29 victims of Georgetown Jast Saturday, are ex- | pected to make the Colonials step to- night. The Maroons succumbed to the | Hoyas only after a bitter struggle. While George Washington will close the pre-Christmas college sngnm a trainer, Hickey and Spinelli, centers; Walsh, Oliver, Darowish and Guarneri, forwards, and Sheary, Ambrose, Hanley and Cummings, guards, were to make the trip. ‘Tomorrow night the Cards will re- sume court relations with the Manhat- tan College Jaspers at New York City. These schools last met in 1927, when Catholic U. nosed out a 13-to-12 victory over the Jaspers. Pollowing a short workout at Ryan gym tomorrow morning, Coach Johnny Colrick, Manager Bill Dennis and 10 Georgetown cagers will leave for New York for the annual Christmas jaunt. The Hoyas, however, will not play until Friday night, when they oppose the Brookyn Knights of Columbus. Ar- riving in New York tomorrow night, most of the players will visit their homes in the city and will assemble again for practice next Tuesday and Wednesday. Following the Knights of Columbus clash, the Hoyas will then meet the Crescent A. C. on_ the next night, December 27; St. John's College on December 29 and cember 30. HOLMES BOWLERS BEST Win Sigma Nu Phi Interchapter Bz Duckpin Match. Holmes Chapter of the Sigma Nu Phi legal fraternity of Washington College of Law bowlers won the local inter- chapter duckpin championship without the loss of & set. & Teams were entered in the tourna- g:lnt by all local chapters of Sigma Nu Ralph Andrews, Clarence Crown, Wil- liam yle, Edwin Mooers, E. Merrill Hawley, Charles Nash and Ralph Stevens were on the championship team. Referee—Mr. Mesmer (G. U.). Central alone of the public high group is carded for a court e to- morrow. The Blue is down for a game I;itth Alexandria High in the Virginia city. Western High's quint will show its uff against Hagerstown, Md., High tonight in ihz) Maryland mhwuum also 8o throug] & game this afternoon against Washington-Lee High of Ballston, Va., in the Western B mm"“ o G0 permnit the. Dlayieg et o both matches. Several other games involving school- boy fives of the District group were listed today. Central and Baltimore City College were to have it out at Central, Emerson and Episcopal were to face at Alexandria, Woodward and Georgetown Prep were to meet at Gar- rett Park and Gonzaga was to again take on an alumni combination at the I street school. Emerson’s quint, crippled by the loss of stalwarts who are ineligible scholas- Manhattan on De- | I COLLEGE BASKET BALL Yale, 17, State, 32; Villa- 8t. Louis University, 13; Drake, 8. fi!ndl.lnn. 17; Washington (St. Louls), Beloit College, 37; Lake Forest, 29. Deflance, 38; Dayton, 28. Kent State, 26; Case, 18. Wittenberg, 38; Bluffton, 24. St. Joseph's (Philadelphia), 31; Wash- ington College, 28. Arkansas Tllinols College, 33; Lincoln, 24. St. Viator, 28; Shurtleff, 24. Augustana, 31; Cornell, 30. Carthage, 27; Iows Wesleyan, tically, put up a stout fight before down before Central. The Blue, m reserves, overcame an early Emerson lead to gain a 13-10 m: t the half. Coach boys held Thereafter the whip hand. For Central, Cross did some nifty sniping, counting 10 points on four goals from scrimmage and two from the foul line. Rabbitt and Shapiro were leading scorers for Business. Line-ups: Central (26). GF. Morgan, HMason, 1. Bry: scrimmag and two from the free line for 14 points. Yowell, with 10 points, was second high scorer for Western. Travers, with 6 points, was Alexandria’s leader on attack. Line-ups: Western (; Latona, f Preshman, Fox, 1. Plerce, 1. Yowell, ‘¢, Sherwin, Summers, ran i or, Ami ] i | sooscecccawm; Alexandria oNooeseooR: g i~ omcosommn® ancsacSoco! Curtiss, . Muckett, . conconemnd. on, Totals...... Referee—O, Mitche! A fine defense was mainly responsible for Woodward’s win over Georgetown Prep, though the Y. M. C. A. School players also cashed consistently on their scoring chances. Just one George- town Prep floor goal came from close the Garrett Parkers being forced to_“pot” time and again. Line-ups: Woodward (20). PPy Maniscalco, £. 3 DeMoti | smconcmmacal s » 21 - wl ol Totals ol comwmon? Referee—Mr. Robinson. Confusion incident to a fire at Lan- don- School necessitated the calling off of the practice court match scheduled yesterday between the Massachusetts avenue schoolboys and Tech in the McKinley gym. The fire, however, was not serious. Richard Turner, captain, and Albert Vernet, both of East 1s Church, Va., were among the members of the 1930 Fishburne 10 the school at ‘Waynesboro, Va. Keeps Base Ball As Students Pay GALESBURG, Ill, December 19 (#)—When Knox College’s athletic board voted to abandon base ball unless it could pay for itself, the | varsity players were not discouraged. Their campaign among the stu- long - suffering | Rumors Declare Knute Out Again 'OUTH BEND, Ind., December 19 (®).—The big rumor-and-report boys around South Bend still persist in resigning Knute Rockne's Jjob for him. ‘The latest gossip is that Rockne will retire as Notre Dame'’s foot ball coach, but will remain as athletic director. The boys have even lined up candidates as his successor— namely, Hunk Anderson, present first assistant to Rockne; Harry Stuhl- dreher, quarterback of the famous “Four Horsemen” and now coach at Villanova; Jimmy Phelan, now head coach at the University of Washing- ton, and Eddie “Slip” Madigan, coach at St. Mary's College, Cali- fornia. ST. JOHN’S WILL FACE GRAD QUINT TONIGHT Opens Regular Schedule Against Tech High School in Tilt Next Tuesday. Bt. John's basket ball team, which is scheduled to open its regular season against Tech in the McKinley gym De- cember 23, will show its wares tonight against an alumni combination on the Vermont avenue school floor at 8 o'clock. Much interest has been aroused, and it is figured to prove a wow of a scrap. Buddy Gallagher, forward, is organizing the alumni outft. Among those who may show for the grads, in addition to Buddy, are Andy Morris, last season’s captain; Joe Hudson, Mike Lally, John Sherman, guards; Bob Cooper, Joe Hickey, centers; Ralph 5::52‘ Eadle Webb, Key Mulvehill, for- St. John's undergraduates probabl; will start with Capt. Gene Auguscerrer): John Hartnett, forwards; Bob Smith, center; Mike Scanlon, Bob Quigley, guards. Others on the Kaydet squad Who may break into the game include Pearson Stanley, Bill Spates, Ple Ju- liano, John McCarthy, Ray Liston, Henry Jones, Fred and George Scheele, .!P:_ kgfi}ug:’x:e. 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Those who watched the Crimsons yesterday were encouraged when John (Monk) Campbell, quarterback and spinning ace, though limping from a twisted knee, dropped into his place with the varsity backfield. Godfrey still was at Sington's tackle berth and Sington, All-America selec- tion this year, was at rd. In addi- tion to Campbell, Boykin, Suther and Tucker were rynning in the varsity backfield. The official party of 82 aboard th special pulling out today included Dr. George Denny, president of the uni- versity, 35 of the Crimson shi horde, coaches, university officials sd prominent _citizens of the State. Coach Wade announced only one stop-over would be made en route and that for a trip to Grand Canyon. The squad will be given an opportunity to rest and forget foot ball plays and sig- nals until arrival in California. Arriving in lena, December 23, the Crimsons will again begin daily practices to continue until the day of the game. The main body of the root- ing contingent will get under way the day after Christmas, when three special trains are to head for Pasadena. In addition, a number of students and alumni are Westward bound either by automobile or bus, and a good sized body of Alabama rooters will join John Mack Brown, former Alabama star now in the movies, in givihg the last Wade- coached edition of the Tide encourage- ment from the sidelines. “I Need Thee Hour!” Says the man— when you think of SHOES as the most sensible gift for him. 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