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PORTS. CRIDIRON OFFICIALS AGAINT ABOLITION Suggest Distance Penalties for Fouls Committed on Point Try. BY HERBERT W. BARKER, Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 29.— The opening verbal blast of the annual meetings of intercollegiate athletic of- ficials has developed support for foot ball's much-abused point after touchdown. A definite move toward abolition of the extra point had been widely fore- cast, but the first official sction of the meetings favored retention of this scoring feature of the game. Delegates to the annual sessions of the Eastern Association of Intercolle- giate Foot Ball Officials last night ap- proved the extra point but suggested Auto Crash Fails To Stop Helene EATTLE, Wash., December 29 (). —Miss Helene Madison, Seattle swimming star, was shaken se- verely in a motor car crash yesterday. The car in which she was riding collided with a truck and lodged against a telephone pole. Miss Madison suffered minor bruises and scratches, but went through her customary swimming practice. ALABAMA, COUGARS 00 FINAL PREPPING | Washington-State and Purple Tide Gridmen Fit for New Year Tilt. THEY WILL DECEMBER _ 2 CLASH IN that the penalties for fouls occurring | while the try for point is made are now | too drastic. They referred specifically to the present rule under which extra | points are awarded, or disallowed, be- | BY PAUL ZIMMERMAN, Associated Press Sports Writer. ASADENA, Calif., December 29.— Two of the country’s leading cause of offyide. They suggested tm- position of diStance penalties for offside. Seek Interpretation. The association asked for a uniform Interpretation of the fumble rule so that on all kicks as well as fumbles “the ball, if recovered before it strikes the ground, may be advanced by the one recovering.” It was just on such a play that Barres, Yale end, ran to a touchdown against Georgla last season, and there- by a widespread discussion as to the legality of the play under the fumble rule which says that a fumble of a kicked ball is dead at the point of re- covery. Barres grabbed a kicked ball after it bounded out of the arms of a Georgia player. The ball did not touch the ground before Barres caught it. Members of the Eastern Association for the selection of Foot Ball Officials heard Walter Okeson of Lehigh declare | that the time was “about ripe” for the formation of a national organization to handle foot ball officiating. Coaches Meet. “The American Foot Ball Coaches’ As- gociation holds its annual meeting today. # Tomorrow the first sessions of the ‘National Collegiate Athletic Associa- tion will be held. This association is concerned largely with the administra- tive end of all intercollegiate athletics, but foot ball generally monopolizes most of the interest at its December gather- ing. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler's sug- gestions to curb “overemphasis” in the e probably will furnish plenty of 1 for debate. The sessions w.ll con- tinue into Wednssday. E. K. Hall, chairman of the Foot Ball Rules Com- | mittee, is to make his report. The chances are he will recommend that | no changes in the code be made. IN CHESS BY FRANK HE five-man team tournament conducted by G. E. Bishop, un- | der the sponsorship of the | Washington Chess League, still | 80 far as Jocal chess is concerned. Dur- ing the past week Falls Church won from George Washington by the score of 4 to 1, and Chevy Chase from Friznd- | ship Heights by 3% to 1. Each team | now has played two games, and Chevy | Chase and Falls Church are tied for | first place with two straight wins. Al together 48 different players have en- gaged in these encounters. Falls Church | has won largely through the excellent wymx of Dr. Ransom, Davidson and | illiams, each of whom has won his | two games. Solomon won both his games for Chevy Chase and Simmon: won one and drew the other. De Les dernier and Whitaker of Mount Pleas: ant, Kalmbach of Agriculture and R.| Sherify of George Washington each has occuples the center of the stage, | es. the Falis Church-George | ‘Washington match: | Falls Church ngion. Gegrge Wil Ransom | <1 ° 1 1 Parmalee . 3 4 Score of the Chevy Chase-Friendship Heights match: Chevy Chase. Parks .. < Priendship Heights. Avery e Laterner . Sullivan Default Default " [} 1 0 0 | QR2—4 pleccs. foot ball teams, Washington State and Alabama, swept into the home stretch of a fast-waning grid ! season today and settled down to final | preparation for the sixteenth annual Tournament of Roses game here New | Year day. |~ Many roads led to the battle site, the | Rose Bowl in its picturesque Arroyo | Soco setting. The Crimson Tide will | seep into top form by the easy stages of light workouts. The Cougars from | the Northwest face hard sessions today | | and tomorrow, with the crowning drill | | Wednesday expected to be light. | " Coach Orin “Babe” Hollingbery is sat- | isfied with the physical and mental | status of his Washington State array. Coach Wallace Wade is convinced his Alabamans have learned their foot ball | well, but jsn’'t so sure that they will be |in_top form. Both mentors rounded the turn in final preparations Saturday with tough ,sessions in the morning and then | allowed them a first-hand study of grid- | iron geometry as displayed by the All- | Notre Dame and West-South teams in their charity tussle in Los Angeles. | Yesterday was a_day of relaxation, | with trips to the Pacific Ocean front | taking the edge off & week of hard work !‘ for both aggregations. | Coach Hollingbery says he is not dis- | | turbed over the potentialities of Ala- bama’s players. | | What betting has_taken place favors Alabama. Coach Wade says this is| | without merit. He is convinced that should the weather turn exceedingly warm—and there are indications that it will—the result will work ill effects on | either or both teams. Chances are that the contest will not | attract a maximum crowd of 85,000, | The advance sale, however, had reach=d almost 60,000 Saturday. CIRCLES | B. WALKER: N the handicap tournament of the | Capital City Chess Club Whitaker forfeitcd his game to Gleason, who | thereby tied Smith for first place, each having a score of 5 won and 2 lost Simmons is_third with 4 wins and 3! losses, and Whitaker, Clinton, R:berts and Parsons are tied for fourth place with 3 wins and 4 losses. Gleason and Smith will play off the tie, Gleason con- ceding a handicap of pawn and move. MLOTKOWSKI, t> whom was sub- + mitted for adjudication the un- finished game between Byler and Carl Hesse, played in the two-man tournament recently, has given his opinion that the game was drawn. Ac- cordingly, the Byler-Walker team wen! hrough this tournament without losing a single match. They won 4 and drew matches, their sccre being 5—1, 115 | points ahead of their nearest contender, the Bettinger-Bishop team. Byler's in- dividual score was 5 wins, 0 lost, and 1 drawn, a point ahead of second man. White—K Ps on End-game _position: 3 on BK, R cn KB3, B on Q K3, QR5—5 s, Black—K on . R on KB2, B on KBE3, P on White to play &and win. Send solution to Chess, 1486 Meridian place northwest. | Last week's problem, as stated, was a | trick problem. A study of the position | ¢ill readily indicate that black's last move must have boen P-KB4, as mo| ther move was possible. Applying the | rules of the game white plays PXP en wWolverines' Eleven Defeated, 6 to | Company ¥ nt, and will mate next move. | lution received from J. W. Byler. Team Standing to Date. | Matches, Games. Team. tehes. Games Ghavy Chase .. alls’ Church Pleasant . Bureau of Standards Priendship Heights . URING the past week a meeting of D representatives of these teams and others was held at the rooms of the Capital City Chess Club, the object being to discuss the proposition of car- rying on chess activities for the ‘Wash- ington area, not confined to local or- ganizations, including team tournaments and District championships. The meet- ing was attended by G. E. Bishop of the existing league. F. T. Parsons of the Capital City Chess Club, G. H. Parks of Chevy Chase, E. R. Kalmbach of Ag- riculture, R. Sherify of Agriculture, H Latterner of Friendship Heights, F. W F. G n of Mount Pleasant and Dr. C. A. Ransom and R. A. Cushman of Palls Church. J. Tucker of Bureau of Standards was absent. The meeting decided to continue the team tourna- ments, and to assume charge of the tournaments for the District title. A committee was appointed to take steps to perfect the organization and to draft rules and regulations for th> conduct of its activities. The committee is to re- port to a future meeting. EW YORK CITY has a Metropoli- tan Chess League of 12 clubs, which are about to battle for su- has a Metropolitan Chess ue. Harvard is leading nine con- festants, with a score of 5-1. ‘The Metropolitan Chess League of Angeles has completed its schedule. gen teams competed, Beverly Heights and Los Angeles, both undefeated, tieing for first place. HE annual tournament of the H. Y P. D. College Chess League, played in New York City, December 22, 23 and 24, resulted in a victory for Har- yard, which won all three matches layed by it. and had a final score of 15-215. Yale was second. with 612-5%: uird, 5'2-6'2, and Dart- ith fourth, 215-9%. S This tournament was for the Belden- phens Trophy, which was won for first time in 1925 by Yale and in 1926 by Princeton. This is the fourth successive victory for Harvard. - ‘The result was due t> the excellent playing of the Harvard team, composed of M. C. Stark of Washington, D. C, Ya: W. Robe! A 2lo—15; W. A, rison, 2 , 3—0; O. Southard, 1'4—11. Robertson and Saron were mem- of last year's team. Saron was the aly player in the tournament who won three gemes played by him. 4 HE first round in the tournament | for the championship of the Cap- | ital City Chess Club, contested by Bishop and Walker, resulted in a draw. | There were only three entries for this | event. Carl A. Hesse, present champion, | being’ the other. They will play a double | | round. Walker opened with P-Q4, which was defended irregularly. Both played | carefully, aiming at advantages in posi- tion. Minor pieces were exchanged, and a position arrived at where neither felt safe in venturing. A sequence of moves | was repeated. and a draw was agreed | upon after 27 moves. The second round will be between | Hesse and Walker; the third round be- ween Bishop and Hesse: the fourth be- | tween Bishop and Walker; the fifth be- tween Hesse and Walker, and the sixth | and final round between Bishop and Hesse. These games are played at the chess club Saturday evenings. Sccre of the Walker-Bettinger game: Walker, Bishop. Walker. | white, BY K3 4 B | QKt-Q2 3 | | | | SAINT BERN’ARD WINS. | | MARSEILLES, France, Decmber 29 (®).—Arthur Veil-Picard’s St. Bernard | | won the Massiglia Stakes, a steeple- | | chase handicap of 2 miles 6 furlongs, with La Biche second and Marshal | ifitnch third. St. Bernard, trained by | “:e American Wally Davis, was an | o bama in the annual Easi From left to right the: Hurl, and rge Hill®end. Above: Hard-charging line of Washington State eleven, ‘which battles Ala- -West classic at the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, Thursday. are: John Hurley . guard: Mel Hein, center; Jack Parodi, guard; Glenn Edwards, tackle, end; Harold Ahlskog, tackle; George Right: Backfield of the Crimson Tide as it will line up against the Cougars. Left to right: John “Hurry Suther, left half, and John in, fullback; Ralph McRight, right half: John oup” Campbell, quarterback. —A. P. Photos. Wed Year ONG BEACH, Calif.,, December 29 (#).—Ray E. Tandy, captain of the 1930 Stanford University foot ball team, proposes to marry ‘Wanda Wasden today for the second time this year. “Yes,” Tandy said last night, “that is right, the second time. You see we were married in Tijuana last January 30, but have kept it a secret. The second wedding, Tandy said, was agreed upon after Los Angeles County courts attacked the legality of Mexican marr.ag:s. The young couple decided to keep the marriage secret until after the foot ball season because the tackle thought it might affect his status as a team member. Mrs. Tandy is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wasden, Long Beach. Her father is an oil operator. Grid Star to Twice This ANDREWS, SANDLOT LEADER, DIES AT 60 Former Big League Ball Player Made Many Friends as Circles’ Manager. William E. (Willie) Andrews, one of the most popular figures in local sand- lot base ball and basket ball circles as manager of the National Circles, died last night at his home, 320 Fourth street northeast, after an iliness of three months, He was 60 years old For seven years he piloted the Na- ticnal Circles and made a host of friends Horse racing, however, was Andrews' favorite sport. At one time he owned a string of horses. Andrews was a first baseman on the Brooklyn Robins over 20 years\ago. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Citherine Andrews, and three children, John, Nellie and Mal Andrews was born near Elmira, N. Y., and moved to Washington 20 years ago. Lacrosse also came in for a share oY attention from the veteran sportsmin, who pioneered a movement to establish independent lacrosse hereabout. BARRY'S 32-YARD SPRINT GAINS RED BIRD VICTORY 0—Whalen Shines as Skinker Eagles Win, 12 to 0. Bolstered by the return of Hooley Gass and Eddie Dugan, who campaigned with the Mohawks and Apaches this seasgn, | the Northern Red Birds yestel downed the Wolverines, 6 to 0, silver Spring field. Pepco Barry, star halfback, won the game for the Birds when he galloped 32 fay on the yards late in the third period for the | only score. With Mark Whalen playing the fea- ture role, Meridians won a 12-t0-0 vic- tory over Skinker Eagles. Whalen caught a short pass in the third period and stepped 36 yards for a touchdown. Again in the last quarter he scored, re- turning a punt 41 yards for the goal. Palace-D. G. S. Northern Preps fought to their second consecutive score- less tie yesterday. CHARITY TILT IS FLOP P Less Than 2,000 See South Beat North on Grid, 7-0. NEW YORK, December 29 (A).—Less than 2,000 spectators turned out to watch a picked foot ball team from Southern colleges defeat a similar North- ern aggregation at Ebbets Pield yester- day, 7—0. The gate was less than ex- penses. ‘The gridiron was covered with snow and ice. In the third pericd George Davidson, University of Georgia quar- terback, passed on his 20-yard line to Holland, Tulane, for a gain of 37 yards; slipped off tackle 13 yards, and passed to Jim Magner, North Carolina_back, who ran the rest of the way to a touch- down. Davidson kicked the point. 'HILLTOP BASKETERS TAKE ON MANHATTAN Hoya Trackmen Will Compete in K. of C. Games—Monaghan Is Gallaudet Grid Pilot. Georgetown University's basket ball team will meet Manhattan College to- night at New York and then tomorrow night will move over to Brooklyn to | face St. John's College. These games will wind up a four-game invasion of Manhattan Island by the Hoyas who | have lost both the matches played so | far on the trip, bowing to the Brook- lyn Knights of Colunibus and Cres- cent A. C., both at Brooklyn. Leading th> 1931 Gallaudet foot ball | | team as captain will be Biblo Mona- | ghan, stellar end for the past two sea- | sons.” Monaghan will be a senior ne year. | Six members of the Georgetown track | squad will take part in the annual Knights of Columbus games Saturday night at Brooklyn, N. Y. They are: | Capt. Vic Burke, Artie Briggs, John | Downing, Paul Connoily, Jack Mara |and Jimmy St.. Lawrence. Burke, | Briggs and Connolly will compete in & ‘specml 500-yard race, while the others | will take part in a 1/000-yard run. |UNBEATEN QUINTS MEET | IN PRINCE GEORGES LOOP | Griffith-Consumers and Southern Methodists Foes Tonight | at Hyattsville. { | HYATTSVILLE, Md., December 29.— | | Griffith-Consumers and _ Hyattsville | Southern Methodists, tied for first place |in the Prince Georges County Bask:t | Ball League race, each with two wins in | as many starts, will face tonight on the | National Guard Armory court here at 7:30 o'clock. Following this game there | Will be another lcague match, between | Company F. Hyattsville National Guard, and Mount Rainies Griffith-Consumers won their second |league game yesterday, overwhelming | Mount Rainier, 48 to 6. The winners | ran away from the Mounts from the | statt, and at the half their lead was 24 | to 2. Sherman and Adair, each with 13 points, did most of the victors' scoring. | Griffith-Consumers .. Hyattsville Southern M League Standing. 2 2 i H | Brentwood Hawks . 0 ‘000 Mount Rainier . e 2 000 Clovers of Washington h#8 little trou- | ble defeating Company F, 30 to 9, fol- | lowing the county league game yester- day afternoori between Griffith-Con- sumers and Mount Rainier. Led by Aman, who found the cords for 11 | points, Clovers were away to an early |lead, and at the intermission were in | front, 13 to 4. Crosthwait, with five points, was high for the Guardsmen. ANOTHER TITLE TO WOOD Wins Southern California Midwin- ter Tennis Tourney. LOS ANGELES, December 29 (A)— | Sydney B. Wood, jr., of Pasadena, Calif., | | and New York has added another tennis championship to his 1930 list by defeat ing Lester Stoefen, Los Angeles, 8—6 6—3, in the finals of th= South: | fornia Midwinter tournament. | _In the men's doubles, Wood, teamed | | with Phil Neer, San Francisco, lost to | Ellsworth Vines, Pasadena, and Ray | Casey, San Francisco, 7—5, 6—2, in the ‘(‘hnmp\unshlp matec CALMES GETS CHANCE | Young Light-Heavy Meets Major | Foe in De Barbieux. CHICAGO, December 29 (). —Baxter Calmes, promising young light-heavy- | weight ‘trom Wichita, Kans., steps into | major competition in the Coliseum to- morrow, meeting Jerry de Barbleux, Bel- glan puncher, in an eight-round bout. Two of the best of the younger crop of bantamweights, Phil Toblas of New York and George Nate, South Bend, Ind., collide in another elght-rounder. rn Cali- Biggest Achievements of Year in Sports | By the Associated Press, { BASE BALL—Victory of Phila- delphia Athletics over St. Louis Cardinals, which gave American League fourth straight world series; Hack [ Wilson’s National League home | run record, 56; minor league | record of 63 home runs to Joe | Hauser, Baltimore first base- | ‘man, GOLF—Bobby Jones’ “grand slam,” #tle of successive tri- FOOT BALL—Notre Dame's triumphant sweep through a tough schedule of 10 games to mythical championship. TENNIS—Triumph of John Doeg in national singles play; comeback *of Tilden to win English singles championship at Wimbledon and register lone American triumph in Davis Cuz play with French. SWIM! G — Twenty - six umphs in British Open and Amateur and American Open and Amateur, new records of Helene Madison, Seattle schoolgirl. POLO—Eric Pedley’s 14 goals of the 24 registered by the American “Big Four” in suc- cessful defense of International Cup from the invading Britons, ROWING—Cornell’s surprise victory in the Intercollegiate Regatta; the clean sweep of the school and Syracuse in the Hudson, River classic. TRACK AND FIELD—Frank Wykoff's new record of 9 2-5 for the “100”; Paul Jessup’s world record shattering discus toss of 169 feet, 8% inches; + Neither has changed. Tunney is more Paavo Nurmi’s new six-mile record. TOURNAMENT OF ROSES ON COAST NEW YEAR DAY THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE: Mother Goose on 1930, Hickory-dickory-dock— Put 1930 in hock: Put it away and let it stay, Hickery-dickory-dock. Two Types. A\HE vast temperamental difference between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney carry on through the ye I can still see Tun- ncy sitting in his corner, calm, cool and | relaxed—with Dempsey's nervous en- ergy exuding from every pore, keen for action and anxious to get up and go to it Dempsey was the final word in ten- n and explosive force—Tunney the final word in relaxation before a iight. { than content to settle down to a quict | life, in or around one place. Dempsey is all over the map—Mexico, California, New York, Texas, Ilinols, Florida, Mis- sissippl, Georgia—and what other places | have you? He could no more camp in one spot for any length of time than the North wind or the West wind could. Ralph Waldo Emerson called off Tunney's life_philosophy in the poem that begin “Good-by, Proud World, I'm Going Home.” The best angle on Dempsey might be taken from Kipling's “Sestina of the Tramp Royal’: | | “Therefore, from job to job I've moved alon, Pay couldn done; For something in my ‘ead upsct me all | Till T 'ad_dropped whatever ‘twas for | ‘old me when my time was | good. An’, out at sea, b'eld the dock lights die, An’'met my mate—the wind that tramps the world.” ‘What Condition Means. ET these two have one maiter in common. Both have kept in con- dition—they weigh but little more, | hardly more than a pound or two, than | when they last met back in They | are at least moving into middle age in | shape. Tunney was the best conditioned ‘ fighter that every stepped into a ring, b>cause he ga most of his time and | thought to the matter of perfect physi- cal shape. ‘There never was a harder | or more conscientious trainer than Dempsey. “I think T overdid my train- | ing for my last fight,” he says. It's a fairly certain guess that this is true. He began hard training in Feb- | ruary ‘of 1927, got ready for Jack Sharkey in the Summer, went back into hard training immediately afterward and kept driving away until he met Tunney in September in Chicago. This | cight-month sicge of heayy training for | a man past 30 was more than any hu- man system could stand. Tunney could rest and ease off in his work—Dempsey couldn’t. There is a certain driving force in many natures that is almost impossible to harness The Coaches’ Convention. 'OST of the foot ball coaches going to New York for the annual mid- Winter convention have little to say for publication on the matter of foot ball overemphasis. To them this argument has become an old and frayed story. They take the angle that any overemphasis that might be .around isn’t due to any fault upon their sid which is largely true. The main pre sure has either come from college ath- letle authoritics or from the ocutside. Many of them know what happens when they can’t win, even though the fault is not theirs in any way. It isn't an easy or a simple job. Rockne and Notre Dame have won 19 straight games, but they lost four games in 1928, Alexander and Georgia Tech cleaned up in 1928, but this last Fall -~ | adds a certain amount of spice to the | of ground. The weaker team, they lost five or six games, every im- portant game on the schedule. Cali- fornia was the West Coast champion in 1928—and Nibs Price was out in 1930. The Point After Touchdown. HATEVER is done about the point after touchdown, there is no dis- A counting this one bare fact—it ' is a freaky and unfair way to win or | lose & game. It is a good idea from the | angle of breaking up tie games. But it | {D. C. NETMEN THIRD isn't & sporting proof of superiority. It is throwing entirely too much lmpor- | tance upon one play that has little of | the elements of team piay or foot ball | fundamentals. But it is an interesting | episode for the spectators, and thereby contest, If it is important to break up tle games the fair way would be to award | the victory in case of a tie score to the | team making the greater number of | first downs or gaining the most amount | under | this method, would almost never be able | to win. The point has been advanced that it isn't a bad idea now and then to give the weaker team a chance to win, if (it can stick that closely down the stretch. And there is something to this. All in all, it is a debate that has good argu ments to back up both sides, which is true of many debates in which violent oratory fills the ai N the meanwhile the big Alabama- Washington State battle is now only three days away. Both have come a long way undefeated—from last Sep- tember on to the start of another year. In modern foot ball this is a_great marching, for most of them fall by the wayside before November is over. It is at least proof of strength on both sidcs of the field, and this next test should mean one of the best foot ball grmes of the campaign. In each camp it will be largely a matter of breaking down a high-class defense. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- pape: Alliance.) | Th | was rather surprising. | Mount IN BALTIMORE LOOP Washington Defeats Mount Wash- ington Team Despite Considine's Loss to Jacobsen. BALTIMORE, Md., December 29.— Washington's indoor tennis team today is standing third in the Baltimore Win- ter Indoor League title race, following its 5-to-1 victory yesterday over the Mount Washington team on the 5th Regiment Armory courts. Eric_Jacobsen defeated Bob Consi- ine, District singles champion, 6—0, 6—1, for Mount Washington’s lone win. e d:cisiveness of Jacobsen's triumph Dooly Mitchell overcame Elmer Rudy in three sets at 15—13, 4—6, 14—12 in match. The three doubles engagi ments, which were not completed, will be_finished later in the season. Dumbarton club, another Washing- ton team in th> league, stands fifth. ‘Team standing: Clifton American Legion Navy Blues . YESTERDAY'S SUMMARIES. SINGLES. Mitchell (W.) defeated Rudy, 1513, 46, 1412 Jacobsen (Mt W.) defeated Consi- | 6-0. 6—1: Buchanan (W.) defeated . 6—4. 36, : Eddie Yeomans | W.) defeated Roberts, 68, 6—4. 6-2: | tam (W.) defeated Smoot. 6—4. 2 de Yeomans (W.) defeated 63, 6—4. 5. 64 Buechelt, | DOUBLES. Considine-Clyde Yeomans vs. Roberts-An- drews, 11—0, 4—6 (postponed): Stam-Eddie Yeomans vs. Gripenkerl-Andrews, 8—6, 3—2 (postponed) STRIB USED TO CROWDS. W. L. (Young) Stribling is used to | crowds. He was on the stage at the age of 2 ars, doing a hand balance. | Wilson Tops All Old League Sluggers, Official Data Shows BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, Jr. Assoclated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 29.—Hack Wilson of the Chicago Cubs, leading slugger of the National League last season, gets at- tention in the official percentages and other miscellaneous records of the Na- tional League year, issued today. Wilson, going to bat 585 times, hit for 423 bases and complled a slugging average of .723, His nearest rivals were Chuck Klein of Philadelphia and Babe Herman of Brooklyn, who had slugging marks of .687 and .678, respectively. Wilson batted in 190 runs to eclipse the former league record of 159 he set the year before. He drew 105 bases on balls and struck out 84 times to top the league in both respects. Another league record fell when 17 players had 100 or more runs batted in. The old mark was 16. Wilson accom- plished the feat for the fifth successive year, while Sunny Jim Bottomley of St. Louis, after doing it for six years straight, fell 3 short of the 100 mark. In the club marks, Chicago made the best slugging percentage, .481, and had the most bases on balls, 588, and the most strikeouts, 635, St. Louls batted in 942 runs to establish another new league record. The former mark of g 933 was made by the Cubs the year| before. The New York Glants proved them- selves the best road club in the league by winning 41 games and losing 36 away from homé, but three teams made better records when performing on their home fields. The St. Louis Cardinals led in this respect by winning 53 contests and losing only 24 at Sportsmen’s Park. Brooklyn participated in the greatest number of shuout games during the year, 22, and won 13 of them, to top | that'list’as well. Clncinnati was held scoreless 10 times, ROWLAND TURNS OWNER Former Umpire and Manager Will Take Over Reading Club. CHICAGO, December 29 (#).—Clar- ence H. Rowland, former manager of | the Chicago White Sox and later an | American League umpire, may conclude | a deal tomorrow for the purchase of | the Reading, Pa., club of the Interna- tional League. Rowland had' an“emngagement today with Wil L. Veeck, D gdent f the Chicago Qubs, owners of th&wReading team, to settle final details, Velgk said he unde Rowland intends téman- age as well as operate the club, the feature 700 MUCH REFORM TALK HURTS GAME Gridiron Sport Sound, but Surroundings Might Be Bettered. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. HIS Is open season for foot ball reform, and all the re- formers are shooting at anything that moves. Each of them wants a nicely mounted fule or a stuffed coach's head for his gun room wall. The ordinance I should like to see passd is one which would prohibit all mention of foot ball among old grads, faculty members and coaches, from Jan upry 2 to September 2. If the players wished to indulge in Spring practice, an exception might be made between the hours of 4 and 6. What the game of foot ball needs is a little rest. It should not be obliged to go bounding through the Winter months dcdging theorics and sugges- And, in this connection, it might be well for those who favor cutting down the forward pass to observe that Canadian rugby is recommending its adoption. | I am glad to sce Nicholas Murray | Butler, president of Columbia Univer- sity, advocate an endowment fund for athletics, which would do away with the | necessity _of scheduling for gate re- t That is something which I cen preaching for years. It would make victery far less of a financial con- | sideration and do away with much of | the drudgery of which Bill Roper has been talking. Holds Idea Unsound. William W. Comfort, president of Haverford, says that the college should retain complete control of athletics. That depends upon what he means by “the college” and what he means by “complete control.” If Dr. Comfort visions a college as a group of buildings and a faculty, I think he is wrong. There never has been a great college yet without a few traditions and an un- dergraduate or two. From my angle, especially in ath- letics, a college is in loco parentis to a boy. Parents may encourage sons of college age to practice such qualities as sportsmanship and hcnor, may ad- vise them as to companions, may insist that they perform certain family obli- gations, keep certain hours, but few of them attempt to dictate rules for any healthy amusement in off hours. Parents don't insist on arranging the boys’ golf or tennis games, or telling them which professional instructor they must employ, especially when they don't pay for the lessons. The first re- sponsibility of a college coach is to the boys. If they don’t like him, he is in | the wrong place. If the coach is a bad influence, then it is time for the elders to step in. And I don't quite believe that colege athetics, outside of a certain lflmgunt o{l physical culture, are a part of a college program, al- though T do believe that h‘:lllhful col- |lege sports should be encouraged by | every college. Better Raise Salaries. Dr. Comfort says that college coaches should be paid no more than members of the faculty. It depends upon the lcoach and the member of the faculty. A man is entitled to earn up to the limit of his value. I will agree that no member of the faculty, equally valu- i able, should be paid less than a col- ege coach. My idea would be to r: wages, rather than to lower them, if the workman is worthy of his hire. Few members of a faculty are willing to give the time to studying or de- veloping _students that a foot ball coach gives. Many haven't the same fiery enthusiasm for turning a fair scholar into a fine scholar that a coach has for turning a fair tackle into a fine tackle. | The truth of the matter is that a | great many coaches are born teachers, |while a great manv faculty members | are learned men. Where cne is both |a learned man and a teacher, there is no salary too high for him. (Copyrieht, 1930. by North American News- puper Alliance.) tions. | Alcova IMotor and Iroquois Game *Was for 150-Pound Grid Title. ALEXANDRIA, Va. December 29— Alcova Motor Co. of Arlington, Va., and Iroquois A. C. of Alexandria fought to a 0-0 tie in a foot ball game yester- day at Baggett's Park here listed for the Northern Virginia 150-pound-class title. Alcovas claim the Arlington County | championship and Iroquois figure them- S | selves the best in Alexandria. BIG GOLF YEAR SEEM Bob Cutting, vice president of the United States Golf Association, talks optimistically of 1931 in golf. He says: “The advent of the new all, together with the withdrawal of Bobby Joncs from tournament play, is going to give goif its biggest year.” BASKET BALL TIPS BY SOL METZGER. A defense is put to the acid test on a basket ball court when one of the attacking players receives a pass from his teammate and turns ta shoot. Naturally the guard must iry to.prevent the attempt making good. To bring about this result he charges at full steam toward '.En shooter and leaps as high as possible *in the air, both arms extended, in order to deflect the ball in its flight. To prevent this the shooter should use the two-handed chest shot, in- stead of the underhand shot, a point covered a few days ago. chest shot is executed more rapidly and thus stands a better chance of get- ting to the basket. That's the one thing the ddemlg Rowlamd plloted Nashville in e South<m Associgtion the last two yoligs. A layer must be sure to take care this situation. (Copyright. 1830.)