Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1931, Page 33

Sports News pening Star. | WITH SUNDAY MORWING EDITION Features and Classified WASHINGTON, D.’ C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1931. Some 70,000 Will See Grid Classic Today : Fast Trails COUGARS FAVORED T0 BEAT ALABAMA Washington State Has Edge in Weight and Psychology. Weather Clear. BY PAUL ZIMMERM Associated Press Sports Writer. ASADENA, Calif., January 1. | —=Southern foot ball su- premacy which- has pre- dominated Tournament of Roses play in the past five years, | gets its fourth test here today | when Alabama and Washington State meet in the New Year day game’s sixteenth renewal. Three times in five years a team from balow the Mason and Dixon line has invaded the Pacific Coast's grid sanctu- ary to collect two victories and a tie. The Cougars from the Northwest are slight favorites to break the Southern | spell. PSome 70,000 of foot ball's faithful followers will be on hand to help usher out another season of the great college | sport. Weather conditions are expected | o be ideal—cool, with no rain. The contest, Alabama’s third in rose tournament_play, is expected to hinge victory on the ability of either eleven to traverse the air lanes goalward, for both squads boast great lines whose stubborn defense play made undefeated seasons_possible. The teams are almost a standoff as to weight, with Washington State hav- ing a slight edge. The psychological advantage, if any, also swings toward the Cougars, whose lack of the spec- tacular in winning the Pacific Coast Conference title forced them into the position of the short-enders in betting until late yesterday. The game marks Coach Wallace ‘Wade's last appearance as gridiron gen- eral of the Crimson Tide. It will be the third time his teams have taken part in the annual New Year day drama here. In 1926 the Tide swept over Washington, 20 to 19, and returned in | 1927 to tie Stanford, 7 to 7. Washington State also returns after | i victorious contest in tournament play. | The Cougars wrote a 14-to-0 victory into the first chapter of the Rose Bowl series back in 1916 by defeating Brown. | Many members of that team will be on | hand today to cheer the 1931 edition to what they hope will be another such triumph. Hollingbery Is Hopeful. Coach Orin “Babe” Hollingbery, duate only from the school of hard ocks, supporter of no foot ball sys- tem in particular, but nevertheless a keen student of the game, will be mak- ing his first stand in Rose tournament history. “1 never have known the Cougars to be in better condition for a game,” he said. “Wie I by this honor mot only of Wi bat Pacife Gonst foot ball ae. well. We HENRY BROADBENT. T e, with flying Coach Wade was more reticent. He | said: “I have a mighty fine team, which | will try hard to win. ‘The boys are in| gtod physical and mental condition | and they can be depended upon to do| 31‘:" best. I can't say more than| The probable line-ups: Alabama. Position. Washington suu Moore L. J. Hurley Clement (C.) Ahlskog G. Hurley Hein Parodi Edwards Maskell ‘Tonkin Lainhart Ellingsen Cain Schwartz Officials—Bob Evnna. Miliken, ref- | eree; H. R. Hutchins, Purdue, umpire; ‘Walter Powell,” Wisconsin, head lines- man; Sam Dolan, Notre Dame, field' Judge. —_———— COLUMBUS U. FIVE BUSY | ‘Will Play 'ljhree Games Week, First on Tuesday. Next Columbus University basket ball team | List night, 23 t0 11. certainly will be busy next week. Crimson will engage Strayer Tuesday 'WILSON, CUB SLUGGER » IN GAME HERE TODAY| |Hack Playing With Mamnlburg‘ Tossers at Silver Spring. Other Squads Busy. CHESTER CRO§§ Sports followers of the Dism‘m‘ to get a glimpse of Hack Wilson, siug- , ging Chicago Cub outfielder, this after- noon at Silver Spnng High 'School, but not in base ball garb. Wilson, a guard, was to lead his | Martinsburg basket ball team against Census Enumerators at 3 o clock. A preliminary betwecn — Stewart Hrothers Photographers’ and Oakley | . C. of Baltimore has been arranged. Western Electric _tossers _ downed | Hawks last night by 38 to 21. Schaffert, with 16 points, was the star. | Tnability to break through the Laurel | National Guard defense caused _the Southwest Eleven Is F avored In Clash With Midwest Today BY GAYLE TALBOT, JR., Associated Press Sports Writer. ALLAS, Tex., January 1.—Foot ball stars of the Southwest | and Midwest were to collide for charity at Ownby Stadium downfall of the Laurel Independents here today in the third renewal of the ‘With Colbert scormg 24 points, Wilson \ Dixie classic. The Scottish Rite Hospital for Crip- night in Central High gymnasium as, Baptist cagers defeated Que Flashes, 38 | pled Children reccived $10,000 from post-holiday play is resumed in the to 30. Colb'rt made 11 field goals and Baylor University, the Southwest array appeared as one of the most powerful elevens ever assembled in this section. On the other hand, the Midwest team, assembled and coached by Bob | Zuppke, veteran Illinois mentor, ap- ‘peared scarcely as potent as those of the last two years. It impressed critics as a powerful team, but lacking the | individual brilliance ‘of the Southwest | unit. The team lacked such a per- | former “as “Pest” Welch, the _All- | American halfback, whd led the Mid- SOCCER GAMES LISTED Newport .News to Play in One of Tilts Here Sunday. Marlboro will oppose D. O. Kickers and Newport News will play Washing- | ton-Concord Sunday in the Washington and Southeastern District Soccer Asso- ciation’s cup tie s:mi-final round. Drawings were made yesterday. The first-named tilt will be played at Rosedale playground with Leo Leckey | officiating, and the latter on Georgia avenue with Bill Castle refereeing. LOCKE OPEBATED UPON CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 1 (#).— Gordon Locke, athletic director at| Western Reserve University and former Iowa All-American baokfield man, will go into 1931 minus his appendix, it was revealed yesterday. STARTING PASADENA GAMES TEEM WITH DRAMA Driscoll, Muller, Brenkert, Layden, Wilton, Furnish Stirring Moments. BY PAUL ZIMMERMAN, Associated Press Sports Writer. ASADENA, January 1.—Since | the Tournament of Roses| foot ball classic was born in the quagmire of Termi- nal Park here New Year day, 1916, invading teams have never been able to take the edge in the won column. ‘Washington State, Western se- lection this year, started the Pacific Coast off on the right foot with a 14-to-0 triumph over Brown. The year following Coach Hugo Bez- dek's Oregon eleven, with Shy Hunting- ton, star quarterback the outstanding Th:' Mare Island Marines from San Francisco defeated a Camp Lewis eleven, 19 to 7, in 1918, while the great Paddy Driscoll from the Great Lakes training camp led his team to a 17-to-0 triumph over the Marz Islanders in 1919. Eastern intercollegiate foot ball earned its first victory in 1920, when Harvard trounced Oregon 7 to 6. The Web- footers led until Harvard cut loose with a passing attack that allowed Church to score and Arnold Horween to ‘kick goal for the deciding point. Wonder Teamt Wins. ‘The sixth annual contest, brought the “wonder team” of California a 28- to-0 victory over Ohio State and was featured by Brick Muller’s famous pass to Brodie Stephens, variously citimated at_from 55 to 65 yards. ington and Jefferson in the 1922 classic, which terminated in a 0-to-0 tie. A remarkable 40-yard run by Brenkert, halfback for the Presidents, carried him across the goal, but the play was called back for offside. Coach Bezdek made his fourth ap- pearance in a Tournament of Roses game in 1923, when his Nitany Lions of Penn State dropped a 14-to-3 decision to the University of Southern California. He previously piloted Oregon and the Mare Islanders to victory, but lost in the 1919 servic: game. A stubborn 14-to-14 tie contest mark- kies of Washington and the Navy. ment of Roses that the Four Horsemen | of Notre Dame staged their last charge together, sweeping Stanford before them, 27 to 10. Elmer Layden scored three of the Ramblers’ four touchdowns. Comes From Behind. | _After trailing”T9 points;"the Crimson | Tide of Alabama rolled in upon Wash- |{ington's Huskies in a last-quarter rally |in 1926, for a 20-to-19 triumph. Again in 1927 Alabama's undytnl de- | termination permitted the “Southern | gentlemen” to tie a great Stanford ecleven, 7 to 7, after tralling practically the entire route. Frank Wilton, Stanford halfback, was the goat and again the hero of the | 1928 game, which Pittsburgh lost, 7 to | 6. Wilton’s fumble permitted a Pan- | ther score, but a few @loments later he ran to a touchdown after recovering a similar bobble by a teammate. “Biff” Hoffman kicked goal for the winning point. Roy Riegels, vas vevealed yesterday. |center, staged his famous reverse run'Arbor. ~~ lGeneDaley, o b player, defeated Pennsylvania 14 te 0./ Rain fell upon California and Wash- | ed the 1924 struggle between the Hus- B It was at the tenth annual Tourna- | | A University of California | PAGE C-1 est in Bowl Battles Bob Newby Sticks To the “Old Ship” Bob Newby, & human dynamo in any work that concerns the best in- terests of Central High School, of which he is a graduate, or in any- thing else in which he is interested, until the past season took part in every one of the annual basket ball games in which Central has met its alumni. The teams first played in 1917, in the 1929 renewal, and although tac- kled short of his own goal by & team- mate, Georgia Tech swarmed over Benny Lom, kicker, for a safety and an 8-to-7 triumph. The East took its most decisive b@lt- |ing in the fifteenth annual game while | 70,000 watched a bewildered Pittsburgh | | eleven lose, 47 to 14, because it was | unable to cope with the passing attack | of the University of Southern Cali- Jornia ‘TECH 'ALUMNI SCORES OVER REGULAR QUINT | Coach Boyd Is Leading Factor in 29-t0-27 Win—Central Finds Del Ray Team Easy. | As is fast becoming the custom here in recent years, Tech graduates added another victory to their already long aggregate total over their high school’s regular basketers. Coach Artie Boyd was mainly re- sponsible for Tech’s alumni nosing out the undergrads yesterday, 29 to 27. Artie, ably helped by Joe Croson, led the attack on Tech’s five. Croson rim- med a pair of free tosses with the score 27-all and 20 seconds to play, to pro- vide the winning margin. Everett Russell and Bernie Reichardt, however, were the stars of the game, counting 22 points between them. GFPts Alumnt. Werber. Edebbut, &. Totals. 137 Totals. 2 Central High's second stringers bat- tled Del Ray almost to a standstill in the first half yesterday and with the advent of the regulars, the independent quint was outclassed, 38-23. ‘The score at half-time was 17-16 in favor of the Del Rays. Central High. F.Pts, Gumberland, £ 2 | coomarmmm; ol mrmonconons; | awmomssmana M H Tot: Cronan. MICHIGAN COMING EAST ANN ARBOR, Mich., January 1 (#).— University of Michigan’s com ball schedule for 1931 has announced. It follows: October 3—Michigan State Normal and Central State Teachers, at Ann | Arbor. October 10—Chicago, at Cl . | g:wber 17_°h.°!0 S'.lfahwl.t‘oAnn Arbor. October 24—Tllinois, at Champaign. October 31—Princeton, at Princeton. November 14—Michigan State, at Ann rbor. November 21—Minnesota, at Ann Arbor. November 7—Indiana, at Ann Arbor. | O'Ne Tomorrow Jan’y 2d WESTERN FIVE 0UT TOHALT OLD GRADS Would Get Even Tomorrow for Beatings Suffered in Past Seasons. HOULD Western High's basket ball team contrive a win over its alumni tomorrow it will not be | running true to form. The grads have been trimming the under- | graduates on the hardwood regularly in recent years. Last season the alumni was & 27-20 victor. The old boys hand- ed the school team a '40-18 jolt in 1925 and ever since thy undergrads have been getting rough treatment from the older fellahs. It appears that the alumni should chalk up another victory tomorrow. ‘Western apparently is no stronger, if as strong, as last season, while the grads figure to put a strong combination on the floor. Bob Freeman, Jimmy and Herble Thompson, Don Garber and others are at hand for service with the alumni.. Players from whom the undergraduate starting line-up will be picked include Latona, Fox and Pierce, forwards; Yo- well and Sherwin, centers, and Sum- mers, Amidon, Taylor, Stehman, Trun- dle and Llwder guards. Among the players who have com- bined to down the undergrads in recent years are Garber, Gichner, Whelchel, Alexander, MacKenzie, Jeffries, Baird, McDiarmid, Frisby, Dulin, Heagy, Alton, Buscher and Wilson. An interesting feature of last season’s game was the duel for scoring honors between the Buscher brothers, Everett and Alton. Everett for the school team scored 13 points and Alton for the grads up 12. Central was to meet its alumni in their annual basket ball game this aft- ernoon on the Central floor. An under- graduate-alumni rifie match and a dance were to follow the court tilt. NINE BOUTS ON CARD Members of Boys’ Club to Stage Program Tomorrow. Nine three-round bonnc bouts ummt pou ds w“us pwnda wul tfl-‘lled by poun: members of the Boys’ Club in the club foot, | mly just been re: ues‘ipound clus Campannelll vs. D;ll“ -pound class—Will Reed vs. J. u pound cl.lu—suve ‘Thompson Vs. | last year's game and prospects were for | westto s 25-14 triumph last New Year |a larger gallery today. For the o b R TR time since the classic was inaugurated, | rading the bt " the Southwest eleven was & pre-game co-captains were three players who were voted the “most valuable” on favorite and advance sales of tickets | their respective teams in 1930—Stanley Washington Colleigat> Conference serics, two foul shots. Shopherd College also at Central Wed- — nesday night and Gallaudet at Kendall | _Henry, center for Army Headquarters, | Green Saturday night. The games at | Scored almost enough points himself to Central will start at 9 o'clock and that | beat the Fairlawn tossers last night as Bt Gallaudet at 8. | the Army basketers won, 49-22. ~Henry | The great chance In its only game so far in the Col- fegiate Conference Columbus squeezed | out a win over Southeastern. Columbus recently took a 32-12 beat- ing at the hands of Shepherd College &t Shepherddstown, W. Va. The Crlm- #on, bowever, was forced to bat he ‘West Virginia quint, one of the bc z in its section, with only two regulars. With $ts full strength Columbus is confident of making a better showing Wednesday. GIRLS IN TWO EVENTS | scored 20 points Manager Gordon of the XmDElLal A. C, 135-145-pound tosscrs, is casting (or a'game for tomorrow night. He has | a gym. Call Metropolitan 1573. | TOSSERS IN BIG TEN IN QUICK COMEBACK Follow Three Defeats .Tuesday Ewimming "'l“ Follow Bowling Night With Four Wins—Indiana Match at Y. M. C. A. Today. S‘Mmmlnz exhibitions by a group of | w. A. girls were to be given this -uemoon at the men’s pool at the Central Y. M. C. A. at 3 o'clock as part | of the joint New Year program of the ference basket ball pride, humbled by | two “¥'s.” A bowling match between girls and aight, was somewhat assauged by four | men on the men's alleys at 2:30 o'clock | Victories in as many games against in- | will precede the swimming program. — | two members of the Eastern Intercol- Fine Tribute Paid To Grid Pastime A former foot ball player—college and professional—who travels over the country as a salesman and every Saturday in the Pall ‘goes to some llege grid game, has lhA to say: “Through the years,” he writes, “you will always find me renewing my youth by being present at some college e. Now, what have I found out? Regardless of the view of those who would utterly reform the game I can honully say I know of nothing today that is of so much value to our country-and our youth | u a ‘lflu l.nmut and participa- "!n an age of lochl rebellion, when everymunlnwnnw himsel!f, foot | ball, thank has provided a measure of u!ety for keeping our | youth manly, teaching them the value of discipline. All these young men who play, who wax enthusiastic over the game as rooters, arc Amer- ica’s real hope for the futurs, and it s a fine thing for. them to react to strong, mn!y things.” S | Priladeiphia and barely got past Penn- | Bernie Keeps Its Slate Clean, | By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, January 1.—Western Con- | three defeats in three games Tuesday | tersectional rivals last night. Indiana and Ohio sm,e blocked off legiate League. The Hoosiers invaded 24 to Dickey and Maurice Massy dropped baskets in the waning moments. It was Pennsylvania’s fifth consecutive | defeat. Ohio meanwhile ¢ntertained | Cornell and won, 38 to 24. Twenty-six fouls were called and the 40 minutes of play were spread over an hour and a half, | Northwestern and Michigan, two of | the Big Ten's best, also won thelr| games, sweeping the night's slate. The | Purple defeated Alabama, for two years champions of the Southern Conference, at Evanston, 32 to 10. 'Bama was held to three field goals, while Guard Frank Marshall of Northwestern also found time to sink four goals and a free throw, leading the scorers. Michigan won from Ohio Wesleyan, 46 to 19, keeping its record in Winter sports clean for this vania, 20, when Substitutes season. Purdue, still smarting from its de- feat by Pennsylvania Tuesday night, will tackle Temple University's basket ball team tonight, while Indiana meets Pll‘-lbfll"h at Pittsburgh. ‘The rest of the New Year day program for Big Ten teams wil be pres:nted at | to repeat its vlmry of two weks ago Peoria, Tl whers Tliinols ott-mot over Eragley Coliege, ! [reflccbed the fact. Hoyever hastily thrown together and polished by Coach Morley Jennings of | 20 Years Ago In The Star. EORGETOWN UNIVERSITY'S basket ball team faces its hard- est home game of the season in the New York University contest Friday night at the Arcade skating rink. Barriczllo and Bryant, new- comers to the G. U. squad, and Hegarty, grid coach who is soon to join tne basketers, are expected to strengthen the team. The Hilltop- pers are chowing improvement after a ‘rather poor start. Gallaudet wallops Eastern High, 59 to 14, in practice basket ball game at Kendall Green. Playing for Gal- laudet are Craver, Roller, Morris, Indian Battiste, Arras and Hower. Dailey, Varela, Chase, Capt. McCaff- rey and Baldwin represent Eastern. Mo Arras and Hower all show keen eye for the basket. Dailey does most of Eastern’s scoring. 1t is figured that the Washington base ball team has a chance to finish higher in the American League race next season than seventh, where it wound up last year, despite it has added no strength. Cunningham, second basc, and Ainsmith, catch- er, are newcomers to the National roster. Bob Unglaub, first baseman, is still with the Nationals, though he is not expected to be with the club next season, Somerlot, Henry and Lelivelt are prospective first-sackers on the roster. Manager Cornwell has Northeast bowling alleys im good shape. Hill- tops, captained by Waters, have tied Easterns for first place in the cham- plonship race. Athletics, under Chlrley Salb, are npldly coming to the front. _ Richardson, Burhans, Miles and Hagan are fighting for high average. Campbell has high game at 162. Symanoskie’s set of 362 still is unbeaten. Marty McDonagh, South Atlantic hurdl> champion, cnters thy George Washington University track meet to be held at Convention Hall Feb- Tuary 4. Bodman, University of Illintois tackle; George Stears, Purdue guard, and Rob- ert Clark, Northwestern center. Jack Dale, great defensive fullback of the University of Arkansas, and Buddy Hackman, stellar halfback from the University of Tennessee, were named to | divide the executive duties for the Southwest. The pair promised to be outstanding stars for the “home” team. From all appearances, there was lit- tle difference in the weights of the con- tending forces. For the first time the Southwest boasted a line fully as bulky as that of the visitors, and, with the exception of Jakey Wilson, 147-pound quarterback frqn Baylor, its backfield carried as much heft as that of the | Zuppke men. Powerhouse tactics em- | ployed by the Midwest the last two years were likely to hit something solid today. Blmwd with a group of fine backs, Coach Jennings equipped the South- west with a wide variety of plays, most of them revolving around Hackman of Tennessee, who has proved himself a sensational passer. Coach Zuppke devoted a week to per- fecting his team’s running attack, giv- ing little attention to the overhead. He gave his boys whnt he called a “Red Grange offense,” with Leo Jensvold, University of Iowa line buster, playing the role of the redoubtable ice man. Probable line-ups Southwest. “Pos. Midwest. )..L. (Towa). Wilson (Bay.) Hackman (Tel Bethea (Fla. Dale (Ark.) Referce—Ben Lee Boynton liams). (wil- BASKET BALL RESULTS. Ohio State, 38; Cornell, 24. Indiana, 24; Pennsylvania, 20, ChvcolkgeorNewYorh 27; Yo Oklahoma University, 36; Southern Methodist, 33. Michigan, 46; Ohlo W s] Iowa State, 17; Dral Brooklyn, 15; Fort, lene. 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