Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1931, Page 22

DISBANDMENT SAID /T0 BE TEMPORARY False Impression Is Given| by Scattering of Squad After 1930 Season. » ~ assembled for three months at the League Island Navy Yard last year, has been dishanded and players, man- agers and coaches sent to various Marine Corps posts, this is not taken to mean that the Marine Corps will be without a strong foot ball team. On the contrary, when the 1931 season gets under way, one of the strongest elevens that have carried the colors of the corps in years may be assembled. Some years ago the Marine Corps be- gan to inaugurate a policy in ‘athletics under which it was intended that at Quantico would be developed teams somewhat along the lines of Annapo- lis and West Point. It was felt that in athletics, as well as other lines of work, Quantico should become to the Marine Corps what_Annapolis and West Point are to the Navy and Army—the great training ground for the whole organi- mation. This policy was developed for a time, but it seems that in late ars has been departed from considerably. Therefore, while an impression has been created, probably without intention, that there will be no more Marine Corps foot ball and base ball teams, the actual situation, when it redev ops, in all likelihood will result in even stronger and, if anything, better or- ganized teams. Practically all those Tesponsible for the activities of the corps realize the great value of ath- letics, foot ball especially, in main- taining a high morale and in retaining that keen interest in the corps which makes every man in it feel that it is something that belongs to him, that its honor is in his individual keeping. Just what plan may be worked out in foot ball for next Fall is not known, but the chances are that when it comes. time to call out candidates for the teams that represent Quantico, Parris Island and San Diego, the three Ma- rine Corps posts that regularly turn out elevens, the candidates for the teams, located in different parts of the world, will be given their choice of the post to which they desire to be as- signed. It would in that case be only Bbuman for them to ask to be sent to Quantico. Virtually in the National Capital, Quantico has advantages over both the others and, from the viewpoint of the corps, is far more strategically located. Officers charged with the Tesponsibility of directing all activi- tles, both work and play, naturally should see the advantages in having the best eleven possible representing the post that is so located. ‘This, then, being the situation, it seems fairly certain to develop that the most important athletic activities, in- cluding foot ball, of the Marine Corps will build up at Quantico and Quan- will actually become the one big center of Marine Corps sports. This would not mean that other Marine Corps posts would be without teams, but simply that the by teams would be at Quantico. This would seem to be the logical outcome of the present situa- | tion, and, instead of being a deterrent to Marine Corps athletics at other laces, probably would exert a stimulat- | influence on them. Before long, .if conditions build up as seem logical, the teams that make their home at Quan- tico should become generally known throughout the country as the Marine Corps teams, the best the corps pro- duces in the way of manhood. BY H. C. BYRD. 'HILE the all-Marine foot ball team, which was | Connor, ‘Bambino’ Of the 80s, Dies ATERBURY, Conn., January § (#P).—Roger Connor, 73, former first baseman of the New York Glants, and the “Babe Ruth” of the 80s, died yesterday. He played with the New York club in the old National League from 1878 to 1891, and was one of the great hitters of the time. He was later traded to Philadelphia and wound up his big league career with St. Louis. After retiring from base ball Con- nor was a school inspector here for 7 years. He resigned that position in 1920 because of ill-health. From the time he joined the Na- tional League he never failed to hit less than .300 in any season and in 1885 he batted .382° to lead the league for the season. 'PUBLIC HIGH QUINTS TO PLAY TOMORROW |'Will Engage in Tune-up Games for Opening of Title Set Next Friday. All four teams listed to take part in | the opening games of the public high | school basket ball championship series Friday afternoon in the Tech gym- | nasium will see action tomorrow. | _Tech will engage Hyattsville High on the Tech floor at 3:30 o'clock, Eastern will meet the Boys Club team in the latter's gymnasium at 8 p.m., Gonzaga will face Business at Business at 3:30 | 2nd Western and Woodward will battle at the Central Y. M. C. A., also at 3:30. Tech, defending champion, and East- ern will come to grips in the series opener Friday at 3:30 o'clock with Busi- | ness and Western taking the floor in the finale of the double-header. Eastern and Tech quints also had en- gagements this afternoon, the former against St. John’s at Tech and the lat- ter against George Washington fresh- men at Eastern. e TAKES CRICKET flTCH. SYDNEY, Australia, January 5 (#)— Australia defeated the West Indies in the second cricket test match today by an inning and 172. THE EVENING WALKER CONTEST 1S HARVEY'S GOAL British Middleweight Hopes U. S. Debut Against Dun- dee Will Get Bout. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January b5.—Len Harvey, lanky British middle- weight champion, makes his first American appearance in Madison Square Garden Friday night against Vince Dundee of Baltimore, brother of Joe Dundee, once welter~ | weight champion of the world. Harvey, they whisper, has been beaten only once in the 350 ring engagements of his 10-year career in the ring. Like most of the British boxers who have come over here in recent years, he is a good boxer with a punch that is labeled no better than fair. The British champion hopes the bat- tle with Dundee will lead to a series of American appearances by which he hopes to force Mickey Walker, king of the 160-pounders, into a title bout or clse an admission that he no longer can | make the class limit. Walker has been campaigning lately among the heavy- weights, and there seems, to be a dis- tinct doubt whether he can make 160 pounds. Dave Shade, who rc cently dropped a | hairline decision to Harvey in England, meets an old rival, Joe Anderson of Cov- ington, Ky, in the 10-round semi-final. Louis (Kid) Kaplan of Meriden, Conn., former featherweight champion, meets Jack Portney of Baltimore in the open- ing 10. The Dundee-Harvey bout is at 12 rounds. Tonight in Philadelphia Benny Bass of Philadelphia defends his junior light- weight championship against Lew Mas- sey, a fellow townsman, in & 10-round match. SCORELESS GRID GAME. Though each once seriously threat~ gned_to_score, Meridians and Palace- . G. S. foot ball elevens yesterda fought to a 0-0 tie. ‘ i STAR, WASHINGTO: D 1LY ONDAY, T K| it Mif I o ~e-- THE OLO CHAMDION 1S5 BACK IN THE FIGHT o Jackls ©LANS INCLUDE SOME REFEREE/ING AND PROMOTING IN THE EAST W20 4. 3, AN TN R RACKET AgAN HE MAY BE THROUGH AS A FIGHTER. BUT HE JANUARY 5, 1931, ¥ L oon'r KNOW WHO's FIGHTING BUT I3 STILL- A'BUCK'S' OFFICE ATTRACTION SPORTS. Hockey Umpires Are Targets, Too HICAGO, January § (#).—Chi- cago hockey crowds have adopt- ed the old college trick of toss- ing coins at entertainers. During a hot third period between the Black Hawks and the Detroit Falcons in the stadium last night, the customers not only threw coins onto the ice in protest against deci- sions, but tossed apples, programs and popeorn cartons. Six minutes of time out were required for attendants o clean up the debris. FAST FIVES TO CLASH FOR COUNTY LAURELS Much Action Likely in Prince Georges League Contests at Hyattsville. HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 5.— Much action is expected tonight in Prince Georges County Basket Ball League games on the armory floor here. ing second with two wins and one de- feat, will meet Company F, National Guard, which has lost its only start to date. Dor-A Boys' Club, which stands fourth with one victory and two losses as its record, will engage the last-place Mount Rainier team, which has dropped both its games, in the other match. Brentwood Hawks showed something of the form they exhibited last season in winning the league pennant when they conquered Dor-A yesterday, 19 to 15. Willis Fisher, forward, was the Hawks’ big shot on attack. League Standing. Griffith-Congumers ............. Hyattevilie Southern Methodists. Brentwood Hawks .... 3 r-A Boys' Club Company F ... Mount Rainier Company F defeated Mercury A. C. of Washington, 38 to 21. J. Shanklin with 15 points and Troy with 13 were leading scorers for Company F. Company F has booked basket ball games with the Pontiac A. C. of Wash- ington for next Sunday and with the Oakley Club of Baltimore for January 25 on the armory floor here. it TWO ROOKIES HOPEFUL OF LINDSTROM’S ‘SHIFT | Vergez and Pickering Will Get Opportunity if Freddie Goes to Outfield. NEW YORK, January 5 (#).—If John McGraw goes through with his plan to convert Freddie Lindstrom, star third baseman of the New York Giants, iew an outfielder next season two minor league recruits will battle it out for the vacant spot in the infield. McGraw hopes that either Jack Vergez, from the Oakland club of the Pacific Coast League, or Jack Pickering, from Birming- ham of the Southern Association, will plug the hole Lindstrom’s shift to the outfield would leave. Some of the more facetious crities in- sist that Lindstrom’s stay in the outfield will last only as long as the Giants are in Spring training, and that he will be in his usual place when the Giants re- turn to the Polo Grounds. el e LEACH-DILLON CLASH. CHICAGO, January 5 (#).—Gary Leach, Gary, Ind., light-heavyweight, and Young Jack Dillon of Indianapolis, & pair of right-hand punchers, will meet in the eight-round final bout at White City tonight. EARN OLYMPIC TRIALS. CHICAGO, January 5 (#).—Eddie Schroeder and Wally Mitchell will rep- resent Chicago in the Olympic ice-skat- OME time back there was sent to this column by & woman teacher in local university an excerpt {rom a | statement by Hamilton Holt, president | of Rollins College, in Florida, in whic President Holt came out flatfootsd with | the assertion that the foot ball coach does the best toac g on the college campus. As an aftermath of this, 4 day or 50 ago the writer recetved, with a | brief suggestion that the other side of the question ought to be printed, the | Tollowing | “You recently sustained a severe eprain of the right arm in patting| Jourselt and your fellow coaches on the k by giving widespread publicity to an editorial by a college president stat- ing that the foot ball coach does the most effective teaching on the campus This prexy may be right, but I recently Tead of another one who eliminated in tercollegiate foot ball and the coach from his campus at one punt. T opine | that if faculty members could pick their classes as coaches select material for their squads more of the develop into Knute Ra classroom. Also I re Collegeprofessor dr. bunnies the said dumbbu endured as pains in the least one full semester finds one of his gridders 1 essentials of skull practice I a can to the misfi forget Furthermore, if a profess his feelings over poor prese classwork s a con ble, he would be co Ject for a cuckoo ward. And if a teacher of defunct methods of dr. into the fvory of does in pepping lege physicl treating ner prof. who te: to juggle the the same line laries, Hov recently expr would prefer to coac an orphan asy , tiary than beds of roses o think the coaches lic thorns.” The writer_stror good friend Dr. I fessor in the Colleg the University petrated the a presenting his torial, the w most made_ou Holt than Dr. H self. JOB FOR OLD LINE CUBS £q nad, we pr s0 have whi cese for D out f | Will Face Seven D. C. Teams Dur- ing 12-Game Basket Ball Season. ‘Encounters with Georgetown and Catholic University Freshmen and all public high school quints of this city appear on the 12-game basket ball schedule arranged for the University of Maryland vearlings. All home games will be played at Ritchie Gymnasium, College Park, starting at 4 o'clock. The card: January 12, Business: 16. Catholic University Freshmen: 14, Eastern; 17, zetown Freshmen, at Tech High; | Testern; 22, Central uary 3, Emerson Institute; Tech; 14, men; 21, Navy Plebes, at Annapolis 11, Catholic _University Fresh- men at C. U.; 17, St. John's (Annap- olis) Freshmen; 19, Georgetown rmhl- ay ing trials at Lake Placid, N. Y. Schroe- der yesterday won the 5,000-meter Olympic event, while Mitchell took the 500-meter, in trials staged by the Nor- | wegian-American A. A. BASKET BALL TIPS BY SOL METZGER. While Coach George Keogan's Notre Dame basket ball team may not contain Four Horsemen, they certainly win their share of games during the run of a season. Keogan knows his basket ball like Rockne s his pigskin. As proof look well planned set play, with el Thlgyn = -2 | | States, but it would have been a harder | | row tnan last year, with so many young | guard, No. starting the h'a pass to his right for- | , Who is breaking back | No. 2 no sooner gets the ball than he relays it to the lef. forward, No. 1, breaking across court toward him, nd then pivoting forming a for No. 2 to break around him, | a short pass and dribble to | basket. Copyright. 1931.) ! thy | around. - THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RIC The Undiscovered. Man has found out many things, A most prolific crop; But no cne yet has ever found A soft road to the top. Man_ has spun out many dreams, Where all the arts may lurk; But no one yet has ever found A substitute for work. Fading Legs. EENE FITZPATRICK, Princeton's \ noted trainer, recently sounded a true note, joining with Justin Huntley MecCarthy in the query, “Where are the legs of yesterday?” It is Keene's idea that the human leg, through lack of use, is losing its old strength and power. The world proba- bly has no more important contribution to the welfare of the race than the au- tomobile. It has even been largely re- sponsible for the wide development of sport. But it was not invented to carry youth everywhere that youth has to go, from 200 yards to a mile. There has undoubtedly been a big falling off in walking and running, in the general use of legs. ‘This is one reason there are so many leg injuries during a foot ball season and why so few distance runners are developed in the various universi- es, “I have seen this change coming on for some time,” Keene Fitzpaptrick said a short time ago. “It has been marked in college spoprts. Modern youth isn't walking and running enough, isn't making enough use of leg power to get This increased leg exercise is a vital need in the physical develop- ment of today's boys and girls, today's young men and young women.” 2avo Nurmi had to walk or run 10 or 12 miles each day to school and back home, a total of 20 or more miles. This was the execise that through two Olympics gave him more distance championships from 1,500 to 10,000 meters than any runner has ever known. He had built up the right leg strength in his younger days. In the old days such play- ers ‘as Ty Cobb, Hans Wagner, Larry Lajole, Pop Anson and others lasted from 21 to 23 years in the big leagues, and they were all big men. There are not so many 20-year players around now. Their legs have given out. Gene Tunney spent many years building up his legs. that helped him to get off the floor in the last Dempsey fight and dance out of range until he bearings. This was no gift from nature to Tunney. It was the result of seven or eight years of hard work on the road, walking and running. Tilden’s Retirement. ‘T is quite possible that Bill Tilden might have come back for one more year to make a bold bid for the | tennis championship of the United stars in the road. They have gained a year's experience, and Tilden has lost another year of youth. At any rate, the tall Philadelphian has piled up one of the greatest records in the history of sport. It will be interesting to see whether | another can take as definite leadership | of the courts in the next few seasons. Winning Captains. ‘He point has been brought up as to how many foot ball captains could handle their, teams on the fleld without any coaching aid. 1930 had more than a few of this type. In the list there were Ticknor of Harvard, Conley of Notre Dame, Sim- Jon ¢ him- Marshall, Real Golfer to Direct Bob > Movie Boss Golf Star Reel Game, Is Four-Handicap Player Out West. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 5.— When Robert Tyre Jones becomes a movie golfer next March, he’ll get his pojnters from a man who once was champion of the Lakeside Country Club, at Burbank, Calif. George E. Marshall has been se- lected as director of the 12 one-reel | plctures on educational golfing sub- jects which the retired champion of | champions s to make for Warner Brothers. Marshall, who will try to show Bobby how to make as big a hit on the screen as he did on his rise to of the time with Fox Films. He di- rected Ruth Roland and Tom Mix in their early days. He is a four-handicap man at Lakeside and in 1926 was club cham- plon. He is a director of the South- ern California Golf Association. Marshall plans to leave Hollywood for Atlanta on January 12 to confer with Jones on the preparation of scripts. In March both will go to the Lakeside Club, where the pictures will be produced. At Lakeside, of which Jones has been made a member, he will find himself in the midst of the movie world, for among the stars who play there are Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Rogerd, John Barrymore and Wal- lace Beery. ‘The club is on the shore of Lake /dom, has been 8 Fears, much i ‘Toluca, whose waters 1 some of the hazards, ’m And it was this leg strength | had recovered his | rall of Michigan, Fesler of Ohio State, Thayer of Tennessee—and this is only a small percentage of the whole. Simrall of Michigan had his full share to do with the Wolverines' fine record. He may not have gotten quite as much publicity as the others named, but in addition to being a high-class back he was also a natural leader who | had the full confidence of his men. 1If any foot ball squad elects a captain who isn't fitted for the job of leader- ship, the squad will pay the penalty next Fall. But it might surprise more than a few to know how many of these foot ball captains are equipped to Rnng:e a team on the field and handle ably. Doubling Up. It may come to pass that civilization wili meet its hardest-test in 1931—the | support of two heavyweight champions. Whether or not modern civilization will be equal to any such undertaking, what with all its other troublcs, is a guess. With Sharkey representing one camp and Schmeling, or Stribling the other, | the turmoil ought to break all records, even if it doesn’t mean anything or lead anywhere, (Copyright. 1931, by North American News- paper Alliance.) THIRD DISTEI'CT (MDMEN ON ALL-VIRGINIA ELEVEN Fredericksburg, Washington-Lee and Culpeper High School Boys Are Selected. ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 5—Four youths who starred in the third athletic district foot ball series have been se- lected on the all-Virginia class B high- school eleven picked by sports writers and coaches throughout the State. Goldey Lowery and Cavanaugh of Fredericksburg High, which won the district title; Stanley Mortimer, brilliant field general of the Washington-Lee High School team, and Huffman, Cul- peper High's flashy guard, were named. Washington-Lee and Fredericksburg also were given two places on the sec- |ond team. Chase and Via of the Little | Generals, and Hash and Middleton of | Fredericksburg were selected. Hugh Travers and Capt. Jimmy | Luckett of Alexandria were accorded | honorable mention, BUCS DROP COLUMBIA. COLUMBIA, 8. C., January 5 (#).— L. L. Propst, president of the Columbia South Atlantic League base ball club, has announced the Pittsburgh Pirates will not operate the local team this year. C NINE Td MEET. A meeting of the Majestic Radio base ball team will be held tomorrow night | at 1269 Penn street northeast at 7:30 | o'clocky A captain will be elected and | other Business transacted. | MATESTI (ONSERVATION leaders through- out the country realize that one of the best ways to con- serve fish and game life is to educate the youth of the country in that work, both boys and girls, and to this end the Izaak Walton League of America has turned to the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and other organizations. The boys and girls of today will be the men and women of tomorrow, in whose hands rests our national affairs. The league and its many chapters now are going to make a concerted drive to en- | gage the help of the youth of the United States in their conservation programs. In order to accomplish this end, every chapter of the league has been granted permission from national headquarters at Chicago to enroll as members any boy or girl under the age of 16 years, such members being exempt from the payment of dues. Acting under this authority, Dr. M. D'Arcy Magee, president of the Wash- ington D. C. Chapter of the league, cor- dially extends to every boy and girl in the ‘District of Columbia an invita- tion to join the local chapter. These young members will be instructed in the policies and aims of the league by men well versed in_conservation work. ‘The name Izaak Walton naturally turns ones thoughts to things piscato- rial, but the Izaak Walton League is by no means a fishing organization. Its chief aim is to conserve the supply of well as fish; to prevent de- America’s natural re- restoration game a5 wel lumhmm FACE BIG BASKET NIGHT All Eastern Intercollegiate Loop Teams Will Play Saturday. NEW YORK, January 5 (#).—A three-game schedule next Satirday night brings out all six members of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basket' Ball League. Yale opened the season Saturday night by whipping Pennsylvania, 26-25, in a spectacular overtime game, decided by Capt. Eddie Horowitz's field goal. Next Saturday’s schedule sends Yale to Ithaca to meet Cornell, Dartmcuth to Philadelphia to tackle Penn and Columbia, league champion, to Prince- ton. BY SOL METZGER. ‘What is the wrist cock at the top of the swing for a wooden club? Note Harry Cooper and you will see it. Like most details it pretty much takes care of itself when the swing is an arm swing. The left takes the club back and up. At the top you cock the hands by letting the wrists bend a bit further with the swing of the club. This merely adds to the length of the upswing, a length that means greater acceleration of clubhead coming through the ball. You keep the wrists cocked on the downswing. As they are relaxed and as the downswing, like the up- swing. is an arm swing, the pull of UPHWING ' OF CLUB CAUSES THIS ' WRIST COCKaAT TOR, et ke 2-3 TIMET DOWNSWING COMPELS LIKE THIG the weight of the clubhead going through the ball will cause the wrists to add acceleration to the clubhead by forcing them to whip through. One does not necessarily have to try to get this wrist snap into the swing. Their relaxation permits it, the gradual speeding up of the club- head snapping the hands through at contact. That is the Vardon theory and it works out in practice. Sol Metzger has prepared a com- plete analysis of ‘the pivot with lustrations which will aid any golfer. He will gladly send it to any reader requesting it. Inclose & stamped, addressed envelope. (Copyright, 1931.) ROD AND STREAM BY PERRY MILLER forests; to remove sources of pollution, and to further the use of the great out- doors. To educate the youth of the country in the aims of the league is a worthy cause to support. Those youngsters de- siring to become identified with the local chapter can do so by getting inta communication with the president, sec- retary or treasurer of the organiza- tion. EXT Friday a conference of the Maryland-District _of ~Columbia Council of the Izaak Walton League will be held at the Lord B: more Hotel in Baltimore. The confer- ence will convene at 10 am, and will close with a dinner in the evening. The mayor of Baltimore is one of the in- vited guests and it is hoped Gov. Ritchie will be able to attend. Dr. M. D'Arcy Magee, president of the Maryland-Dis- trict of Columbia Council extends a cordial invitation to all to attend, re- gardless of whether they are delegates. Dr, Magee was recently notifiled by headquarters in Chicago that he is to be the league's representative in Mary- land, Virginia and the District of Ce lumbia. He therefore extends a spe- cial invitation to members of the league in Virginia to attend. UNTING in the northern counties of Virginia was ended December 31 by the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, instead of January 31, the usual time. This action was taken on account of the reported lack of game. The order does not affect water fowl, ducks and lseeu A day's legal Umit of mu:fi‘l and geese, & OAD basket ball quints, which like to point to their past vie- tories in scheduling games on their tours, certainly are not profiting at the expense of the Skinker Eagles, Washington's premier cagers of 1930, who triumphed yesterday oven Olson’s Swedes. By the same token, the Eagles proved they intend to hang onto their District championship crown. Having defeated the Detroit Clowns a Wweek ago, the Eagles continued their rough tactics yesterday on the Olson Swede five of Humansville, Mo., win- ning by a second-half rally, 30,to0 26. Trailing 13 to 15 at half time, the Eagles quickly hopped into a 30-19 lead, and though™ Olson and his Swedes rallied they could do nothing better than fall two baskets shy. Stewart Brothers Photographers, who | toil in the Eagles preliminaries, were in | the same boat as the Skinkers at half time yesterday in their game with the Frederick Eagles, but, like the Swedes’ conguerors, came through in the last half to win. Harris, with 6 points, led the way to a 23-19 victory. Potomac Boat Club tossers gained a 34,21 victory over Company M yester- day at Fort Washington. Georges Lassise’s 10 points were the factors in the Boys' Club Standards 28-21 victory over Fort Humphreys yes- terday. With Marsh scoring 14 points and Henry 15, Army Headquarters cagers won their eleventh straight win yes- WASHINGTON NETMEN GAIN SECOND PLACE Defeat Dumbarton Team to Climb in Baltimore Winter Indoor Tennis League. BALTIMORE, January 5.—Washing- ton_ All-Stars, defending the champion- ship of the Baltimore Winter Indoor Tennis League, today held second place in the current title race as the result of a 7—2 win yesterday over another District of Columbia team, Dumbarton, on the Fifth Regiment Armory courts here. Both Dumbarton wins came by forfeit. Until yesterday All-Stars stood third. The defeat caused Dumbartons to drop from fifth to sixth place. In the best match Frank Shore, newly crowned national junior indoor doubles champion, and Bob Considine, District singles title holder, defeated Freddy Doyle and Joe Rutley. The scores were 3—86, 15, 6—2. Summaries: Singles. Mitchell defeated Howenstein, Considine defeated Rutley, 64, defeated Dovle, 63, 6—4; 62, 6—2: 61 Shore | Biichanan de- | : Yeomans defeated | Purinton defeated feated Walker, 7—3 Dawson, 6 64 by default. Markey Doubles. Mitcheil and Buchanan defeated Howen- steln_and Purinton, 61, 6-3: Considine and Shore defeated Rutley and Doy Al 75,62 Walker and Dawson defeated Markey and partner by default. League Standing. Clifton ... Washington " Ali-Star Johns Hopkins Racauet_Club. . Mount Washingto: Dumbarton American ‘241 ‘000 terday by trouncing Tremonts, 41 to 31.| Eagles AgainiDisplay Class In Drubbing Swedes, 30-26 St. Martin's had 1 Imperials winning, 38 A game for tomorrow is wanted by Saks Clothiers, who have the use of the Boys’ Club gym. The Clothiers also would like to ar- range a game for Thursday with some | strong unlimited team. Call Manager Dick Mothershead at District 3050. With Milton, Wallenstein and Cohan scoring 34 points between them and every other player on the Jewish Com- munity team chipping in, J. C. C. smothered the Chevy Chase Grays yes- terday by 59 to 15. A strong finish after trailing Shipleys by four points at half time. netted Fort Myer tossers a 27-to-21 victory. ttle trouble with to 15. ‘Wallace Memorial has a gym for Fri- day and is looking for a 115-pound gg})ganem. Call Al Hurwitz at Adams Boys’ Club Standards, who cavort at the Boys' Club gym, are scheduling games with 145-pounders. Manager 4A2b& Klein can be reached at Georgia Palace A. C. is on_the lookout for 115-pound foes. Call North 1497, Managers of all teams entered in the Wachington Independent Basket Ball League are requested to report tomor- row at 8 o'clock at the Howard A. French sport store, where the second meeting of the loop will be held. With Maxwell and Gleason leading the attack with 14 and 11 points, re- spectively, Calvary M. E. cagers scored a 32-to-28 triumph over Trinity in the Sunday School League. = Staubly was high for the losers with 15 points. ‘Wallace Memorial was no match for Petworth's- tossers, who ran wild, scor- ing a 39-10 victory. In the other game scheduled in the league Mount Vernon nosed out United Brethren, 22 to 20. SEE by the papers, as the immortal Mr. Dooley used to say, thatyYoung Stribling is the choice for the bout in Miami. A good choice it is, too. There are certain portions of the | South where Willie Stribling is the only | heavyweight of whom the inhabitants ihave ever heard. In other localities any heavy aside from Stribling is just somebody for the Georgia glove thrower to knock out. Now, in spite of the fact that you can sell many of your high-priced-seats to the Northern suckers—excuse me, I mean customers—from Palm Beach, Miami Beach and adjoining Winter colonies, you must also fill the remain- der of your arena and fill it with fairly local homesteaders. Willie Stribling is therefore a necessity, even though the money he demands makes him a luxury, To match Stribling with Sharkey would be to increase interest in the match Madison Square Garden proposes to hold later in New York, because the winner would furnish an opopnent for Max Schmeling, who has been resting ever since he sat down on the floor in the so-called title bout. And, if the Garden rents its Miami arena to Prank January Bruen and permits him to put | 5 |on Stribling with Carnera, there might be more money in it for all concerned. Florida has seen one Sharkey-Stribling Home Town Sports By the Associated Press. UGUSTA, Ga., January 5.— Ty Cobb believes that being mogul of his home town's sports is enough job for one man. He is not interested in buying any base ball clubs. The “Georgia Peach” took public notice today of rumors that he was contemplating entering the owning end of the diamond business and said that he planned to devote all his time to the position of director of Augusta’s sports that was offered him 3 Tobi esieg. e Repost soma Haze | Cobb Not Seeking Ball Club Costs Too Much These Days, He Holds, and Besides Job Has Him Busy. lfil that he had been offered the Philadelphia Nationals, adding that he is not interested in that or any other club excepting as a spectator at, games. “However,” he said, few mionths ago another club was offered me, but the price of base ball clubs does not seem to be on the level with the market for other commodities. Besides, I have no desire to resume active harness. Now that the home Hyattsville Southern Methodists, stand- | OUSTING INDIGATED BY MAIL BALLOTING Eight of First Ten N. B. A. Votes Favor Vacating Heavyweight Throne. By the Assoclated Press. HICAGO, January 5.—Early returns from the National Boxing Association’s mall vote on a proposal to oust Max Schpsling as heavyweight | champlon Mndicated the German will be without a title as far as | the N. B. A. is concerned. Ten States have sent in their votes to MaJ. Gen. John V. Clinnin, t of the N. B. A,, and eight have voted to vacate the throne. One other State rec- ommended Schmeling be given 30 days to sign for a champlonship battle be- |fore “vacating. The remaining State | recommended 90 days before acting. Thomas E. Donohue, chairman of the Champiohship Committee, has made bis recommendations for rankings in each |class and has placed W. L. (Young) Stribling of Macon, Ga., as the number 1 heavyweight contender. The other ratings, in order, are Jack Sharkey, | Jimmy Maleney, Primo Carnera, Tuffy | Griffiths, George Godfrey, Johnny Risko, l;;sueum Uzcudun, Ernie Schaaf and Max r. Middle Throne Vacant. According to the ranking, the middle- | weight title is vacant, but Mickey Walker, generally recognized as cham- pion, is made the first contender in the light heavyweight division, of which t. | Maxie Rosenbloom is title holder. Other champlons recognized are: Fly= weight, Frankie Genaro; bantamweight, Al Brown; featherweight, Bat Battalino; junior lightweight, Benny Bass; light- weight, Tony Canzoneri; junior welter- weight, Jackie (Kid) Berg; welterweight, Tommy Freeman. NORTHWESTERN FIVE IS BIG TEN FAVORITE Early Pick to Bag Championship in 27th Annual Series That Opens Tonight, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 5.—Wisconsin and 1llinois will open the Western Con= ference’s twenty-eighth basket ball championship campaign tonight at Champaign. The schedule for the week includes seven games, with probably the most interesting to be staged at Ann Arbor tomeorrow night, when Purdue, the de- fending champion, opens against Michigan. Purdue, which last season crashed through a 10-game schedule without a setback—the first time a team has es- caped defeat by Big Ten foes since 1919 —is rated as a contender, but. North- western is the choice of the early guess- ers. The Wildcat veterans won their five pre-season games, beating Notre Dame twice, and Alabama, Braaley and Carleton once each, displaying scoring power in every game except Saturday s engagement with Notre Dame, when they were held to 20 points. Illinois also took five straight, but against competition not quite as tough as_ Northwestern’s. Indiana and Wisconsin have been made the ranking contenders . with Northwestern and Purdue, with Michi- gan, Ilinois and Ohio State rated as possibilities and Minnesota, Chicago.and Iowa figured to wind up at the bottom of the list. Minnesota and Chicago, however, are considerably improved over last season. % SAKS SEEKING FOES. Saks & Co. basket ball team is after a game with an unlimited quint for tomorrow night. The Clothiers have gymnasium. Saks also is seeking & match for Thursday night with a team having a floor. Dick Mothershead, Saks manager, may be reached at District 3050 during the day. SUBSTITUTE IS KING. Carmel Timerario, utility man with the Geneve College foot ball team, was voted the most valuable man for the 1930 season. THE LISTENING POST BY WALTER TRUMB bout and failed to go into ecstacy over it. A Stribling-Carnera bout would be | somewhat like an_engagement between a tiger and an elephant, or, at least, could be ballyhooed from that angle. On the other hand, such a match would make the New York Athlétic Commission pretty mad, use the commission has declared Carnera null and void and forbidden all good little boxing boys to play with him. It should be sald the commission has consider- able justification for assuming this at- titude. The “arrangements” made in some of his bouts became just a trifie too notorious. It is going to take some earnest thinking to decide what to do_about the proposed battle at Miami. Mean- while, young heavyweights, such as Ernie Schaaf and Max Baer, are com- ing along and another year should see some real excitement in the class. In a return match, at popular prices, Schaaf and Baer might fill a ball park on the first warm day in Spring. HE year 1930 will be remembered not only as the year Hack Wilson made more home runs than Babe Ruth, but also as the year that Mir Sultan Khan of India trimmed Capa- planca in a chess tournament. Be- fore the match, he was mere Suitan Kban, but later they spelled his name correctly. Ruth blames the fact that he finished second partly on a sore thumb. I don’t know whether Capablanca suffered from the same handicap or not. You readily can see that a sore thumb would be a tremendous handi- cap in the overthrow of a knight, or the capture of a castle. The'legs usually go first in base ball, but, owing to the nature of a chess game, the weakness couldn’t have been in Capablanca’s legs, unless they went to sleep. ‘The new golf ball should be of the greatest assistance to the dub. Being l'zrge;é it should be considerably easier Bill Tuden is star.yg his tour as a professional tennis player. Being under the management of Jack Curley, Tilden probably. will return from the tour & wrestler. The United States lawn tennis offi- cials heartily wished Tilden success and & happy New Year, and then wept home for the first good night's sleep have town ped me with the chair- manship of o because i 1s ToF the use Y g had in heaven knows when. And these same officials could bear up under it if about three of those tnd mext Davis i patcbs - " (Copyrights 1931, by w“fih