Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1931, Page 27

SPORTS. THE EVENING D. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1931. SPORTS. B—11 Maryland Looks to Banner Field Day : Foot Ball College Need, Perry Thinks STAR, WASIIINGTON, C, SCHOOLBOY MEET ' WILL B BOOSTED Helped by Change of Date for Old Dominion Games. Two Tilts Tonight. BY H. 0. BYRD. HE University of Maryland's program for its annual Spring field day, May 2, is complete, The last event was listed today with the shifting of the base ball schedule to allow West Virginia to play at College Park on that date. The annual field day, which falls each year on the first Saturday in May, involves not only competition for all four of Maryland’s varsity teams, but also an interscholastic track and field meet, which first was held in 1910. ‘The list of events for Maryland teams comprises a base ball game with West Virginia, a_ triangular track and field meet with Navy and Virginia, a tennis match with Wiliam and Mary and a lacrosse game with Penn State. The interscholastic track meet, which last year was attended by more than 40 high and prep schools, represented by nearly 400 athletes, is & part of the am and is to be run concurrently with the triangular meet, in which Navy, Virginia and Maryland figure. The track meet, field events and tennis match begin at 1 o'clock; the base ball game at 1:30 and the lacrosse game at €1 5. Invitations shortly will be sent to all schools in the South Atlantic section to participate in the interscholastic meet and, although & big group last year took in this phase of the day's ac- tivities, it is likely that the largest ever will do so this Spring, as it is under- stood that the date of the Virginia State high and prep school champion- ships is to be shifted. This will allow the big prep schools in Virginia to at- tend and also many of the high schools. As far as the competitions in which Maryland teams are to take part, it is| likely that all will be real battles, with | the exception of the triangular meet. | That should be simply a question of Whether or not Virginia can beat Navy, as Maryland is hardly strong enough | this year in track to stand up with | elther of them. The Spring field day usually is the most _interessing and the best attended of all athletic contests at Maryland, except the foot ball games. EST VIRGINIA and Rider College play basket ball here tonight, the former with Georgetown and the Jatter with Catholic University. The | QGeorgetown-West Virginia game is the | first of two contests between these | teams this week, as Georgetown later | goes to Morgantown to open a three- | game trip. The Georgetown-West Vir- | ginia game is scheduled in the Tecch High gvmnasium and the Catholic U.- Rider College meeting at Brookland. Both the visiting teams are likely to give the local schools plenty of opposi- tion. In fact, they may give them too much opposition. West Virginia is sel- dom weak in any sport, while George- town is somewhat below its standard in basket ball. Rider College is & new- comer in the intercollegiate sports world but is putting out strong teams. Rider College Temains over here until tomor- row night to play George Washington. Georgetown’s basket ball team two or three times this season has been whipped in rather an unusual way. At the end of the first half it has led by just about double the score of its oppo- nent, only to show a complete reversal in the second half to take a trouncing. Once in a while that might happen with any team, but it certainly is un- usual for it to happen two or three times in two weeks to the same team e Georgetown was ar . lost, and Saturday night at Temple it led by double the score of Temple, but got trimmed In the second half. THE, Ronouncement that Comdr. A Reinicke is to leave the -Naval Academy this Summer to go to the ‘War College at Newport, ‘at his own re- | f. quest, will cause keen regret among many of Navy's opponents in athletics. | Comdr. Reinicke, as graduate manager of athletics at the Academy, during the past two years has made many friends | with whom very pleasant relationships have been established. point of his relationships with the press, with representatives of other schools, | and all with whom he has come in| contact, Comdr. Reinicke has left noth- | ing to be desired. During influence good athletes to attend cer- tain universities there seems to be at least one school that shows no hesi- |§ tancy in formulating a plan to seek the most desirable students. And that school is none other than Harvard. Of | course, there is @othing in the plans | announced by the Associated Harvard Club which indicates that athletes will get any particular consideration in this drive o head outstanding boys in the Harvard direction, but the chances are ood that if the prospective student measures up in other ways, the fact that he may be 6 feet and 200 and able to kick & foot ball 60 yards and crash a line successfully is hardly likely to mili- tate against his chances of being re- garded as one of the outstanding young men expected to make Harvard an even | more important factor in the Nation’s educational progress TT would be difficult to devise a more | comprehensive plan for interesting outstanding boys in any university than the following suggestions that have been offered to the Harvard club: throughout the country by the recently formed Schools Committee of the As- sociated Harvard Clubs: “Make a survey of the high schools end private schools within the territory of your club. Schools differ in many ways in each locality and such a sur- vey should indicate just what sort of 2n_approach is necessary in each case in order to get the best resuits from paragraph 2. Your board of education may be helpful in some instances along this line. “Establish personal contact with your high schools and private sehools, getting in touch with the principals, teachers, and the most likely boys and their par- ents. “Supply the schools with college pub- Jications, giving the necessary informa- tion regarding admission, expenses, in- formation for freshmen and general in- formation, “If you find desirable boys who need funds, put them in touch with your scholarship committee, if you have one. “When funds are available and con- ditions warrant, award prizes in the schools for scholarship, and such other qualities as would fit in the general scheme of a well rounded college train- ing. Also present the school photo- phs of Harvard scenes where desira- le. “In the Fall, ask the principals of your schools if they have any seniors who are thinking of going to Harvard, and offer your services in any way as to the furnishing of information or advice. “If your club gives scholarships, send & circular to all schools announcing Just what scholarships the ciub is pre- paring, to offer boys entering the fresh- ol i Bl s sbould go From a stand- | all this cry about trying to % New Mile Record By Conger Likely EW YORK, February 9—Ray Conger’s brilliant victory in the Rodman Wanamaker mile, in the remarkable time of 4 minutes 13.6 seconds in the feature event of the Millrose games at Madison Square Garden last Saturday evening, not only marks him once again as the outstanding American runner at this distance, but presages a new World record holder. Never has a 4:13:6 mile been run with such impressive ease. No one who saw the race will doubt the Iowan's ability to reduce the indoor world mark of 4 minutes 12 seconds provided he is given sufficient im- petus in the way of pacemakers, These he had in the Millrose games, $1,000 GOLF PRIZE IS BAGGED BY WOOD New Jersey Pro Achieves Birdie on Final Hole to Beat Horton Smith at Harlingen. By the Associated Press. | _HARLINGEN, Tex, February 9.— Needing a birdie on the final hole to win, Craig Wood of Deal, N. J., clicked it off yesterday and finished a 36-hole tour in 136, taking $1,000 first money in Harlingen's $3,500 open golf tourna- | ment. His par 71 on the last 18 holes | was added to a 65 in the first round | Saturday. | Horton Smith of New York, whose | | 137 Wood had to beat as he drove from | | the eighteenth tee, took second money o . Al Espinosa’s 141 gave him third money of $400. John Golden of | Norton, Conn., and Charles Guest of | | Los Angeles tied for the next two places | at 142, winning $175 each, and Wifly Cox of Brooklyn won $100 for his sixth place score of 143. | 'Weod's finish brought cheers from a | |large gallery. He led Smith by four strokes when Saturday'’s round was over. Smith was 3 under par yesterday. A long drive from the eighteenth tee, a_spoon shot, which reached the edge of the green, and a putt, which almost | dropped for an eagle, gave Wood a | birdie 4 and first prize. Most of the Pro(essionals were to | leave today for Florida engagements. TOUGH HOCKEY WEEK BRINGS NO CHANGES | Bruins’ Victory Over Canadiens Only Highlight as Standings Remain Unshuffled. | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 9.—For all the hard-fought games of last week the | National Hockey League clubs ended | the week in the same order in which | they started it. The Boston Bruins and | Montreal Canadiens still lead their re- spective divisions, with the only inter- est in them coming from Boston's 2-to-1 triumph Saturday night when they met in a showdown between the two leaders. ‘The standings: AMERICAN DIVISION. o W. L. Tied. Pts. Gls. 200 7 4 44 102 ppon. sl %1 6| o | 132 | Boston . Chicago Detroit Rangers Fhiladelphis ... CANADIAN DIVISION. Canadiens Toronto Maroons American Ottawa LOSES TWO CAPTAINS Co-Leaders Graduate, Now Will Do Without. MADISON, Wis., February 8 (#).— Wisconsin’s basket ball team, which started the season with two captains, and proceeded to slide down to a tie| for fifth place in the Big Ten, now has no captains and will have none during the rest of the campaign. | Ted Chmielewski and Johnny Paul | were elected co-captains of the Badger | It was known that Chimielewki | |would be graduated at midsemester | time, but it was a surprise when Paul |turned up with enough credits 10; his agree, 0 | | Dr. Walter E. Meanwell, Wisconsin's | coach, decided ~that captaine hadn't helped much so far and that he would do_without one Standing to date: 72 50 97| 8] orthwestern . Minnesota 122 | 92 PRSP | omwwmeenaett INVITES SPORTS HEADS Germany Wants U. 8. Leaders to| Visit During July. BERLIN, February 9 (#).—Theodor | Lewald, president of the German Olym- | pic_Committee, has cabled invitations to American sports leaders to visit Ger- many and its playgrounds for sports events to be held in various cities from July 6 to July 27. “Bremen, Berlin, Dresden, Nurem- | berg, Frankfort, Cologne and Nuerburg- | ring would be visited and German sport- | ing institutions shown by our organiza- | tions,” the invitations said. | ~The invitations were sent to Avery Brundage, Gustavus T. Kirby and Fred- erick Rubien among others. BAR KENTUCKY GRIDMAN | LEXINGTON, Ky., February 9 (#). Ralph “Babe” Wright, tackle and cap- tain-elect of the University of Kentucky | foot, ball team was not permitted to re- | enter schocl at the beginning of the | second semester. President Frank L. McVey said in- fraction of univefsity rules was the cause. | | on the school's bulletin boards in Jan- jometime during the Winter months invite the principals and headmasters of the schools to a dinner given by the club. If possible, have some one from Cambridge discuss admission require- | ments, the tutorial system, or collateral subjects of interest to schoolmen, “In the Spring have a meeting, to which should be invited, through the principals, the boys who are thinking of going to Harvard the following Fall. If there are enough of them, have some one from Cambridge, or a well ted alumnus, give them a general talk, in- cluding the subject of admission re- quirements, and telling them with whom they could discuss their own particular problems and difficulties of one sort or another, “In the Summer, after the College Board results are known, have your Scholarship Commitwee give a dinner or luncheon to the applicants for your schelarships. In this way the commit- FRENCH CHAMPION INSETON HALL RUN Keller, 800-Meter Star, to Make His U. S. Debut in 1,000-Yard Event. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, February 9.— N vasion of American indoor tracks will be unveiled to- the opening of the biggest week so far in the 1931 board track Paul Keller, champion of France at 800 meters, will try to make his debut patriot Seraphine Martin's was Satur- day in the 1,000-yard run at the Se- Martin in winning the French cham- plonship, is scheduled to oppose Phil Hamilton, Ontario, Olympic Club; Frank Nordell, New York University Ray Conger in two 1,000-yard events this season; Harry Gallop of Toronto, A, New York, and Jimmy Kennedy of the Newark A. C. pearance, in which he will try to re- trieve Saturday’s defeat at the hands and Dale Letts of Chicago, in the an: nual Meadow brook Club games at Phil- special 660-yard race. The Meadowbrook meet is a replica where the first concerted foreign drive falled. ~Keller's second appearance is day night. He has not decided whether. to start in the mile or the Although his fofm is not considered as good for the indoor tracks, Keller Martin did Saturday. While Martin was falling before Chapman, whose the many brilliant _ performances neither Edwards nor Nordell, Keller' better. Edwards finished third in the Millrose won; Nordell took the same position be hind George Bullwinkle of City Coliege out Dr. Paul Martin of Switzerland. Athletes to Enter Philadelphia and Brookland Meets During Part two of the French in- night in Newark, N. J, to mark season. more successful than that of his com- ton Hall games. Keller, who conquered Edwards, star Negro runner from the freshman, who has finisned second to St. Clair_Davidson of the Milirose A Martin is to make his second ap- of Russell Chapman, Bates College star, adelphia Thursday. He is entered in a of the Millrose Club meet in New York, to be at the Boston A. A. games Satur- 1,000. should do at least as well tonight as two fine half-mile races stood out in leading rivals tonight, could do any 600, which Alex Wilson of Notre Dame of New York in the 1,000, but beat ‘Winter Campaign. . HYATTSVILLE, Md., Februs®y 9. — DAVE BELL, MANAGER. fi)ve to Rescifid N. Y. “Fool” Laws EW YORK, February 9 (#)— Horse racing within a mile of & court house is against the law in New York State, and so is fishing on_Sunday It 15 & misdemeanor to buy land in the State from an Indian, and it is likewise a misdemeanor for a per- son to ascend in & balloon to make a parachute jump. These are some of the “blue laws and fool laws” the City Club today urged be repealed. The club asks Tepeal of dozens of laws on_ the ground they are obsolete, have been nullified, are unenforceable or are foolish. |COURT TITLE TUSSLE IN ALEXANDRIA LOOP Alpha Delta Omega and St. Mary's Basket Ball Teams Clash Thursday Night. ALEXANDRIA, Va., February JOE LYMAN. Fails to Baffle HEY can't hide behind “bushes” | | and fool the Skinker Eagles, | local court champlons, who won over House of David, 47 to 34, yesterday at Silver Spring. The scorekeeper had his troubles; s0 did the 500 fans, but the Eagles| had little difficulty recognizing their | men. T‘ht’ bewhiskered boys from the | Hyattsville High School’s colors will be | Alpha Delta Omega Fraternity and St.| West undoubtedly are wondering toda seen in track competition for the first time this season in the Middle Atlantic States scholastic championships, spon- sored by the Meadowbrook Club Thu; day at the Philadelphia Arena, when Jack Sheriff will be in the 300-yard run. A large squad will represent Hyatts-| place, must trim the “Saints” to clinch | s gg | yille in the Catholic University meet| the first half title, while Victory for | COnsDicuous by his diminutiveness. Joe | 88 | March 7. Beginning today the of preparation for the campaign. It has been working for some time, but has not had the benefit of regular coaching. Paul Smith, former University of Maryland track man, who has been past two seasons, will assume charge again today. Aside from Sheriff, leading members of the Hyattsville contingent include Ernest Michaelson, sprinter; Francis Greene and Tom Hayes, half milers, and Dick Toole, quarter miler. The squad will be strengthened after the close of the basket ball season when Vincent Stevens and Warren Evans will be available. Stevens is a pole vaulted, while Eans runs the half mile CARL FISCHER IN LINE Pitcher Sign_s With;tfiWaiting for Confab With Griff at Biloxi. Carl Fisher, rookie left-hand pitcher, ’; | suddenly changed his plans for signing with the Nationals this year. Instead of waiting until he arrives at the Biloxi Ball Club to talk over terms with Presi- |dent Clark Griffith, Fischer penned his name to a contract and the paper was received this morning at club head- | quarters. Fischer, bought from Newark of the International League last Summer, did |little pitching for the Nationals in the | 1930 campaign. TILDEN TI e CKETS ON SALE Baltimore Performance, ‘Washington net fans who plan to look in_on the second match of the Tilden _and Karl Kozeluh at Carlin's Park, Baltimore, February 19, can get tickets, which went on sale today, at Spalding’s and the Tennis Shop, In expectation of a large delegation of local net followers, arrangements have been made to reserve a row of boxes. Ticket prices range for $150 0 $5.50. Five thousand seats are avail- able. ITALIAN HORSEMEN BEST. BERLIN, February 9 (#).—Italy won the Prize of Nations in the finals of the Berlin riding tournament, defeat- ing Germany, Holland and den. Mary's Lyceum five will bring the first half of the Alexandria Basket Ball League schedule to a close Thursday |night when they meet on the Armory Hall court at 8:30 o'clock. ! Alpha Delta Omega, riding in first the Lyceum, in third place, will throw Hyattsville | the series into a three-cornered dead- | ites- squad_entered the most serious phase |lock between Thursday night's rivals ® trio cf free tosses for 21 points to and Del Ray A. C | Gladys Nowland, manager of the newly organized Fraters’ Pals, is anx- ious to book games with girls' teams ‘Wisconsin | tutoring the Hyattsville hopefuls for the | blaying in the junior class and may be | Goldbisatt, telephoned between 5 and 6 p.m. at | Alexandria 1900. The Pals have rounded up a strong | aggregation, composed of Manager Now- land, Ada Hicks, Grace McFadden, Audrey Beach, Mary Sansbury, Jose- phine Blair, Josephine Nowland, Julia Kelly, Leona Chisholm and Bernice | King. | Friends A. C. of the Alexandria Jun- jor League is after games with junior clubs in Washington and vicinity. Man- | ager Moss, who has gathered around him an array, including Laimbert Bar- | nett, E. Barnett, Hamilton, Lyons, De- | laney, Dean, Fairfax, Mankin, Suthard and Longerbeam, may be telephoned at Alexandria 340-W. Griffiths-Consumers of Washington will come here for a game with Alpha | Delta Omega Fraternity tomorrow night |at 8:30 o'clock in Schuler's Hall. Bill 3 | Hammond's Clover Junlors are arrang- | 151 | training camp of the Washington Base ing a preliminary game. | Alexandria High Lightweights are | anxious to arrange junior class con- tests. Athletic Director Maurice Given ;Ysl'z’ls)’ be called by phone at Alexandria Original Reds, formerly the Cavalry Reds, of Washington will play St. | Mary's Lyceum Friday, night at 7:30 in | the ‘Armory Hall. | Episcopal High's “B” team has booked a game wfth Friends School in Wash- | Washington Tennis Fans Will See ington Friday. | U.S. SECOND IN HOCKEY | Tiiden Tennis Tour, Inc., between Bill Loses to Canada, O to 2, in Final of World Amateur Tourney. KRYNICA, Poland, February 9 (#).— | The world’s international = amateur ckey championship was in Canada’s | possession today through the exploits | of the University of Manitoba grads. In a fast and furious final round battle, Manitoba conquered the Ameri- can representative, the Boston Hockey | Club, 2 to 0, here yesterday. Watson | scored the first Canadian goal in the | first period and Morris the second in the third period. The United States finished second; | Austria, third; Poland, fourth; Czecho- slovakia, fifth, and Sweden, Stagg Blame_s Grid R(;porter Calls Overemphasis Talk Stuff to Fill Space During Game’s Off-Season. tee can size up rather accurately the various candidates as to their desira- By the Associated Press. b AMPA, Fla., February 9.—Here I tennis tournament that he has found he cannot partick University of Chicago foot ball coach, brands talk of foot ball overem- “The sports writers concoct this discussion of overemphasis to fill “You hear it every season. Some years it is worse than others, de- letics during the off-season. The newspapers can always find profes- to play in the annual Dixie ipate in, Alonzo A. Stagg, veteran phasis as “newspaper hokum.” space in off-seasons,” he said today. pending on what is going on in ath- sors Wi to take up the cudgel to rap foot ball. There is very little to it. “The only way I see that foot ball is overemphasized is in regard to the pay of the expenses for the play- ers. Some of the schools carry this to the extreme, and they are to blame, not the youngsters. I can't see that big stadiums and huge crowds come under the head of over- emphasis—that is, except when the colleges recruit the players for the express purpose of producing win- ning teams and thereby paying off stadium debts.” Stagg had hoped to wield a racket in the Dixie tournament, but said he had_discovered the annual meeting in New York Thursday of the Na- tional Foot Ball Rules Committee weuld prevent him from doing so. | how the Birds got “hep” to them. They | wore no numbers and only one of the | | clan differed from his teammates in | | the cut, size and everything else that | | goes with beards. | Though he wore no whiskers and is | Sweeney was not stopped by the David- | He dropped in nine flelders and | | lead the attack for Skinkers. Line-ups: Skinker Eagles (47). Grri H. of David (34 LGP Avplegate, ' Radice. Hall T Allen. ¢ Bennie, & Thompson. Streeks, & | Tota 147 Totals ....74 €34 | Referee—Mr, Pord A nice fat winning streak of 12 games | went . blooey in the prelimimary game | when Stewart Photographers stopped | Union Printers, 29 to 16. Doc Hessler | and Shorty Harris, forwards, scored 19 points between ‘em. T, Showing that high school quints are | | not their only prey, Boys Club basket- | | ers, coached by Skater O'Donnell, | stepped out and won two games yes- | | terday, beating Company E, 13th Engi- r:;e;.s. 38 to 21, and Company B, 47 Knights of Columbus 100 and 135 | pound teams registered two victories 'Whisker Disguise of Daviditeé ] Skinker Eagles yesterday. ‘The 100-pounders walloped Montrose, 42 to 17, and the 135-pound- | ers defeated Petworth, 30 to 27. Due to a change in the Community Center League schedule, Mercury A. C. wiil be unable to play Atonement tonight. The Meres will oppose Cal- vary Drakes instead at Central High School at 9 o'clock. Heurlch Ice tossers were no match | Martins yesterday, the latter | or St. coming out on the long end of a 51 to 7 score. Kensington Ho terday over Rockville, 31 to 28, in a Montgomery County League game, are booking games at North 6583. Indian Head Marines won a 33 to 28 decision over Company E tossers yeste) day. ners’ points. Jewish Community Center Arrows defeated Boys Club, 31 to 16, yesterday in a 115-pound league clash. Battery B topped Battery A, 35 to 19. 19. Four games are dent League teams between French place. Frenchies third. ‘The week's schedule follows: ‘Tuesday—Anacostia les against Naval Air Station, Bolling Field, 8:30 o'clock. Thursday—Anacostia Eagles against Silver Spring | Census _Enumerators, High School, 8:30 o'clock. Friday—French A. C. against Stewart hot hers, Silver Spring High School 0 o'clock. Saturday—Anacostia Eagles against Northerns, 8:30 o'clock. NEBRASKA HOLDS LEAD | Quint Defeated Only by Missouri in Valley Conference. KANSAS CITY, February 9 (P).— | Nebraska's defeat at the hands of the Missourians, by 33 to 20, was the first | suffered by the Huskers in Missouri | valley Conference competition this sea- | son, but the Huskers remained in first place, just a step above Kansas. The ‘standings. Nebraska Kansas ... Towa State Kansas AGei Misse Okishoma Near Title in Northern Coast Basket Circuit. SEATTLE, February 9 ().—Washing- ton State College is the only obstacle | | remaining in the path of the University | of Washington Huskies seeking their | fourth consecutive Northern Division | Pacific Coast Conference basket ball | championship. The two leading teams of the loop race tangle for the first time this year | when they meet on the Washington | floor here next Friday and Saturday. A double victory for the Huskies vir- | tually will clinch the 1931 crown. The standing: Washington Washington 8ta Oregon State Oregon Idaho . CALIFORNIA U. CLIMBS Scores Two Basket Ball Wins and Ties Trojans for Loop Lead. SAN FRANCISCO, February 9 (#)— Week end basket ball results in the Southern division of the Pacific Coast Conference resulted in the usual shake- up of sandings. ‘The University of California at Los | Angeles Bruins dropped two games to the University of California to drop from the division lead to a tie for last place with Stanford. Conversely, the two victories scored by the Bears lilted them from last place to a tie for first with the Southern California Trojans. ‘The standings; California Southery §tantord Pacific| w. 4 Caiifornia L 3 3 4 4 ‘Backyard’ Jumper Sets World Mark EW YORK, February 9 (#).— A backyard jumping style has given George Spitz, 19- year-old New York University fresh- man, the world indoor high-jump record. Using a style he worked out for himself jumping in the backyard of his home at Flushing, N. Y. Spitz jumped 6 feet 7 inches at the Millrose games Saturday night to better the former indoor record by & gquarter of an inch. It is an odd combination of the old style scissors jump with a roll added at the top, to carry him over at_the greatest height. In setting the new record, Spitz defeated Harold Osborn, veteran Olympic star, who holds the outdoor record of 6 feet 8!y inches and who had made the best previous indoor mark form a board take-off. 6 feet 64 inches: Anton Burg of the Illi- nois A. National high jump champion, and Bert Nelson of But- ler University, who set the old in- door mark from a dirt take-off last year. TEXAS AGGIES SHINE | Take Two Basket Ball Games and Rise in Southwest Loop. DALLAS, Tex., February 9 (#).—Im- pressive victories scored by the Texas Aggle quintet over Baylor and the Uni- versity of Texas were the feature of the past_week's Southwest Conference bas- ket_ball play. Conference’ standing: Southern Methodist exas Christia Eonumand HOEY SNOWSHOE VICTOR. MONTREAL, Quebec, February 9 (#). —Frank Hoey of Montreal won the international snowshoe marathon from Quebec to Montreal. SHIKAT RASSLED OCEAN. zers, victorious yes- | Sherman scored 14 of the win-| ted for Indepen- is week, with the putstanding clash being that of Priday A. C. and Stewart| Photograpers. Frenchies must win to stay in the running for the first half championship. Stewarts are in second | Immaculate Conception, | S—— CAPT. THORNTON BURNS. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. ETE HERRING, crack middle distance and dash man of this city, has joined the Washing- ton Grove Athletic Associa- tion and will carry its colors in the Fifth Regiment-Johns Hopkins track meet Saturday night at Baltimore. John Bolac, star distance runner of this city, may join the newly organized Weshington Cross Country Club of which Sargent Robbins is in charge. It is expected that either Boston or New York will be Washington's | opponent in the opening base kall game of the season here April 12. | In the first contest last Spring Wal- ter Johnson conquered Philadelphia, 3 to 0, letting the Athletics down with just one hit. Coach Bill Foley of Georgetown U.’s track squad says the Hilltoppers must renew competition in outdoor meets to regain their former pres- tige in ‘track. Chaney, Maryland Aggie half miler and miler, will run in the meet at Baltimore Saturday night. Terminal Y Base Ball League is planning for the season. A rules committee has been named com- prising J. F. Waters, chairman; P. H, McCarthy, J. Nolan, C. H. Mc- Clung, R. Wood ‘and J. Sullivan. Chairman J. T. Bond appointed the committee. ~ Manager Waters of Adams Express, league champion last season, has announced his team will | Dbe picked from Curran, Hanvey, McMahon, Jewett, O'Neill, Fitzgerald, Stewart, Adams, Thompson, Brown, | Violett, Jones and Graves. THE LISTE I should say, than ever before | in its history. It will start with Jack Curley’s troupe of professionals. The matches Tilden now is playing in the South, with Frank Hunter and Emmet Pare, are only exhibition or practice matches, for the purpose of getting Big Bill in shape for his ptofessional debut. This is | scheduled for New York on February |18, when he meets Carel Kozeluh at | Madison Square Garden. To see the tall | Philadelphian and the great little Czechoslovakian compete should be a lesson in the game. They both know it from every angle. Personally, I should have liked to see Vinnie Richards included in this group. In the first place, he and Tilden always {made an interesting match, and Rich- |ards and Kozeluh playing Tilden and | Hunter in doubles would have been ex- citing. But tennis, like wrestling, ap- pears to have its different camps. From New York the professional troupe, headed by Tilden, will go to | Baltimore, and from there to Boston. | Matches already have been booked as far West as Omaha. When Tilden final- ly reaches the Coast he will make some educational movies, much on the type of those Bobby Jones will make for golf. Later still, | although I think it has not yet been d HE indoor tennis season promises plenty of interest, much more, tralia or Japan. About the middle of March New York will see the men’s indoor tennis cham- pionships. Borotra, Brugnon and Bous sus are coming over for these, and, im- mediately following the championships, the three Frenchmen will play a picked United States team in what practically will amount to an indoor Davis Cup match, the only thing lacking being the 25 | cup. ‘The players to meet the invaders will s | be picked from a group including such stars as Doeg. Allison, Lott, Van Ryn, Shields and Bell. This is another tennis event which is sure to draw a crowd. ‘There is something new in the Davis Cup eliminations this season. If the United States team gets by Mexico and wflm‘ winner of the North bi f will then have to o zone, which will Dick Shikat, former world champion |, heavywelght wrestler, was & sailor in the World War. German He foug against the British in the battle A2 Juunnd.‘ Pal been done before. Duffers have small use play the win s \flan on BY WALTER TRUMB cided whether this will start in Aus-| SEES GREAT HELP TO YOUTH IN GAME Critic Contends That Grid Sport Affects Morale of Students. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, February 9.—A close follower of intercol- legiate foot ball—he has an official position in the great Autumn game—predicted to the writer today that gridiron receipts next Fall throughout the country will show a marked decline. This decrease, he says, will be due to public reaction to the attacks on the game by educational authori- ties. He pointed out that whenever & re- form of whatever sort starts in this country the public rises to it like a culminative wave and with the complete lack of intelligence observed by & wall of water in its onward course. In the case of foot ball he believes that things that have already happened and that will happen in the near future will exert a depressing effect upon public interest in the game and that the reaction will be revealed s the turnstiles. With a great university such as Pennsylvania leaning far backward in dealing with foot ball overemphasis, with the game under fire in various directions, there are certain facts that should be borne in mind at this time. Not Paying Many. First of all, according to the find- ings of the eminent foot ball statis- tician, Parke H. Davis, of nearly 600 go in for foot ball the athletic treas- uries of 530 of themr are empty. So if foot ball is overemphasized, the exag- gerated impulse cannot be especially comprehensive. Secondly, of all the influences with which American youth is brought into contact, foot ball from a moral stand= point is one of the most fcrmative. This applies to those who play the game and to student bodies as a whole. The typical foot ball player, in what- ever part of the country he may be found, is a clean, upstanding, coura- geous, modest. self-sacrificing boy. Hours which he might have spent loafing on street corners or finding out- let for his animal energy in unwhole- some and malicious activities are spent in the give-and-take of rugged com- petition. And they are exemplars to the entire student body. Go to a university where foot ba is played up to the hilt, mark the spirit, the morale of the undergraduates gen- erally, their high-headed stance, their pride in their university;,then visit an institution where foct ball is not em- phasized, or where it is conducted in slipshod manper with a cheap coach and poor material. The difference in the very atmosphere of the two seats of learning is s0 great as to be amas- ing. = Game Helped Princeton. ‘That vicious student riot at Prince- ton last Fall following a foot ball meet- ‘Wng—does any one suppose that the up- rising would have occurred had the Tigers been playing halfway decent foot ball up to that time? ‘When that team rose in its might, co- alesced and turned in against Yale, as well played and as thrilling a font ball game as the season of 1930 saw, the changed impression of the Prince- ton campus was literally miraculous. A new spirit was born, and it is there now. Foot ball is a call to manhood and all that is fine and clean and brave in manhood. anything occurs to di- minish its legitimate influence it will be a national calamity, and those who are working to this end are traitors to youth. Foot ball, of course, needs supervi- sion by those who are concerned with the direction of youth; like anything else of importance, evils creep in. But should remedies be applied with broad= axes by fanatics or by those whose dry souls have never thrilled to brave ac- tion or who think of youth ln%flfl of nothing but book fodder? -In the general drabness of American life foot ball supplies color, pageantry and chivalry., It is one of the fine things about American life; it is con- structive in many ways; it makes young men brave and old men young, and We need it as much as we need books. NING POS |the greens. They want them in the traps, flown at half mast. Few golfers ever play up to the opin- ion they have of their game. A golfer doesn’'t mind an opponent with a stronger game as much as he does one with a stronger voice. Brooklyn should have one of the hardest-hitting_teams ever assembled. Thompson is about the only man on it who is not a slugger, and he has been known to hit 300, and in such company should do it again. That batting order is going to annoy many a pitcher, | (Copyright, 1931. by North American News= paper Allfance.) e s FIRST-NIGHTER MISSES | “Flu” Absents Chapman From Bike Race Only Time in £ Years. CHICAGO, February 9 (#).—John M. | Chapman of Newark, N. J, general | manager of the six-day bicycle races in | New York as well as Chicago, last night, missed for the first time in 20 years seeing the start of a race. Chapman, conducting the grind which opened in'the Chicago Stadium, was confined to his hotel by influenza. WERBER MISSED AT DUKE Robertshaw Trying to Fill Shoes of Court, Diamond Star. | __DURHAM, N. C. February 9.—Bof | Duke’s basket ball and base ball mfi were hit a hard blow when Bill Werber, now the property of the New York Yankees, was graduated last year. ‘- Werber had been a star of the base ball team and All-Southern guard on the basket ball team for two years. However, there’s a bright lining to every dark cloud. Don Robertshaw, sophomore from Philadelphia and a g:otcge of Connie Mack, is filling Wer- T'S gllzc% il} blakl!t ‘l:lll and will be a candidate for the shortstop position in base ball. . He is playing fine basket ball as & regular member of the team. Werber is a former Tech High School star and a resident of Berwyn, Md. s g COLLINS GOLF VICTOR. MIAMI, Fla, February 9 .—Jock Collins, Dayton, Ohio, ’imn‘fie fessional match colleges throughout the country that _