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Basket Ball, Boxing SPORTS SECTION The Sunday Star Part 5—4 Pag WASHINGTON, D. C SUNDAY MORNING Xy FEBRUARY ) iy 1931. Nats “Organize” for Training Thursday : Upset in Fight Plans, New York Rumor 0ld Timer Again on Deck READY FOR 18th BIG LEAGUE CAMPAIGN. BATTERYMEN OPEN DRILS THES WEEK 13 Hurlers, Three Catchers and Manager Johnson to Seriously 111 FORMER BASE BALL CZAR FIGHTING FOR LIFE. Report at. Biloxi. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ASHINGTON’S 1931 drive \ ;s [ for big league base ball laurels gets under way this week. Although several members of the Capital’s; base ball club have been in train- ing since last Tuesday, the Na- tionals really do not “get or- ganized” for their conditioning campaign until Thursday morn- ing when their schedule calls for | the grind to be started at Biloxi, Miss., by a squad including 13 pitchers and 3 catchers. Some of the squad to begin toil the latter part of this week already are at the camp site on the Gulf coast. Others | are on thelr way to the quaint Missis: | sippi town and still others will de- part Tuesday morning from Washing- | ton, Biloxi bound. ! Heading the group going from herei day after tomorrow will be Walter John- | son, entering his third season as man- | ager of the club for which he toiled so faithfully and famously as a pitcher | far 21 seasons. With Johnson will be | Art Fidler, pitcher purchased from | Hagerstown; Al Crowder, veteran hurl- er; Joe Smith, Ray McMahon and George Grayson, young mound hopeful, and young Uncle Nicholas Altrock, clever coach and comedian extraor- dinary. Smith will come from Uniontown, Pa., 0 join the party here. Grayson will get in from Warrenton, Va., Tuesday morn- ing, while McMahon, former University of Pittsburgh pitcher, arrived from his New York home yesterday, and Fidler | will be due from London, Ontario, to- morrow. Crowder is on the way here from Rochester, N. Y., where he has b&\'mun‘ his wife's parents. the way South, the party will pick up at High Point, N. C., Clif Bolton, the young catcher recailed from Washimg- ton's Chattanooga farm at the end of iast season. Looking out for the inter- ests of the squad on the trip will be Billy Smith, assistant business manager of the Nationals. ITCHERS already at Biloxi are Irv- ing Hadley, Lioyd Brown and Bobby Burke, veterans; Lynn Griffith, pur- chased from Joplin of the Western As- sociation, and Walter Tauscher, draftee, from Dallas of the Texas League. Hadley, Tauscher and Burke arrived late yesterday while Griffith breezed into camp Friday. Griffith and Taus- cher motored to Biloxi, Lynn, from his home in Bryan, Tex., and Walter from his habitation in Rbhinelander, Wis. Brown had moved in early from" his Corpus Christi, Tex., home to indulge in a spell of fishing before getting down to_more serious business. ‘This group of five hurlers was ex- pected to do some general exercising the next few days, although the official of training camp will not occur until Thursday. Other pitchers expected to be at hand for initial practice Thursday morning are Sam Jones and Ad Liska, veterans, and Carl Pischer, bought last season from Newark. Liska is heading for Biloxi from Dwight, Nebr., while Jones is to leave Woodsfield, Ohio, tomorrow. Fischer is traveling to Dixie by auto from his home in Medina, N. Y. ESIDES Bolton, catchers ordered to be on the job at the first drill are Roy Spencer, now in his third year with the Nationals, and Ed Kenna, who was up with the club once before and comes back to it from the Chat- tlnfit?l farm. Spencer has to travel only from Norfolk to Biloxi, but Kenna makes the long leap from the Wes Coast, his home being in San Fran- cisco. The only missing batteryman at| ‘Thursday's drill should be Fred Mar- berry, big veteran hurler; Red Har- grave, the much-muscled catcher, and John Peregory, slabman acquired from the Hagerstown club. Marberry and | Hargrave are going through a course of preliminary training at Hot Springs, Ark., and are not expected at the Biloxi camp until March 3. Peregory is about to undergo a surgical operation in Bal- timore and may not get to camp until | late next month. O far as the training plant at Biloxi is concerned, all should be in| readiness for Thursday's workout. Mike Martin, trainer of the Nationals throughout the Griffith regime, already is at the camp and with the assistance of Prank Baxter, chief of the club house staff, will e the dressing rooms, playing field and training equipment in §0od order for a fine getaway. Johnson's stafl, too, will be on hand. Besides Altrock, Coaches Pat Gharity and Al Schacht are to be there. Gharrity is to start South today from his home in Beloit, Wis., while Schacht of New York and points West may be on the way now. Last heard of Al he was around the movie lots of Hollywood. FOR & little more than two weeks the batterymen will do their condition- ing stuff before the infielders and outfielders report at Biloxi. Three days after the full club is assembled— March 12 to be exact—the Nationals will clash with the Baltimore Orioles of the International League in the opener of their exhibition series. There- after the Johnson band will have plenty to do, being scheduled for 19 practice tilts before the championship season bell rings on April 14. USINESS of the Washington Base Ball Club is not so pressing that Clark Grifith, its president, is unable to find time for golf at Biloxi. Every | day the prexy seems to get in a round or two on one of the many courses in the neighborhood of the camp and ‘tis yeported he has been shooting con- sistently in the low 80's. = INVADERS WIN AT SOCCER. NEW YORK, February 21 (&) —Mak- tng its North American debut, the Velez Sarsfleld soccer foot ball team of Ar- gentina defeated a picked team of the New York State Poot Ball Association 3 to 1, today. TESTS FOR HOCKEYISTS. NEW YORK, Pebruary 21 (#).—The 1932 olw Games Ice Hockey Com- ‘mittee decided to select the United States representatives from a se- i the Fall. R BAN JOHNSON. By the Associated Press. T. LOUIS, February 21.— The former czar of base ball, Ban Johnson, lay tonight on a hos- pital bed, besieged by a more per- sistent enemy than ever he met in his long fight to bring the national pastime up to its present commanding position in_the sport world. ‘Whther the once vigorous and lusty base ball chieftain will pull through de- pends largely on his morale, which has been tested severely in his four-year quest for health at hospitals and sani- tariums in various parts of the country. Johnson’s physician, Dr. Robert F. Hyland, says he has a fighting chance to recover from his latest onslaught of disease, if he will sieze it. Another factor is the condition of Johnson's blood, which has been weakened by the ravages of a prolonged cass of diabetes which at cne time threatened the loss of a leg. His condition tonight was described | as “serious” by. his physician, but not as critical as it was Wednesday night, | when a blood transfusion was decided upon. Following the transfusion Thurs- day, Johnson szemed to rally both in body and spirit and he called for a barber to shave him. The former base ball leader has fought diabetes since 1925 and when in 1927 he closed his desk, a physically broken man, and resigned as president of the American League, he went from hospital to hospital, often traveling great distances to regain his health. BARRY IS WINNER OVER SMALLWOOD Gains Decision in He-Night Feature Bout—Wrestler Sent to Hospital. EDS BARRY, Mohawk A. C. boxer of this city, won the de- cision over Joe Smallwood, also of Washington, after 10 rounds of nip and tuck battling in the fea- ture bout of a ring card at the annual He-Night program of the Rockville Vol- unteer Fire Department last night at the Congressional Airport hangar. There was a crowd of around 3,000. From the outset the Barry-Small- wood scrap, billed for the light heavy- welght championship of the District, developed stout fighting. Barry weighed 167 and Smallwood 155. In the co-feature attraction Joe Gl zier of Baltimore knocked out Baker Boy Billy Schwartz of Baltimore after a JOHNSON HONORED BYFANSATDINNER f | |Flaherty Banquet a Tribute to Griff Manager Soon to Go to Camp. H than a score of Washington | fans when the leader of Wash- ington's entry in the junior major cir- cuit pennant chase entrains for the Biloxi training camp next Tuesday. More than 25 close friends of John- son gathered last night at the Hamilton Hotel as the guests of Thomas F. Flaherty, one of the most rabid of |the base ball fans of the Capital, to wish the manager and the current edition of the Nationals farewell. Ossie Bluege and Joe Judge of the Washing- | ton Club's infield were the members of | the team present, in addition to John- son, the guest of honor. Flaherty admonished those who at- ‘tcndcd the dinrer to be prepared to gather around the same table at the | | same place on October 5 “to celebrate | | a victory in the American League pen- | nant chase,” The Flaherty dinners to Johnson, which began three years ago, are be- | goming established features of the late | Wint'r, and have gathered together since their inception a number of the | supporters of the Capital entry in f-hfi American League race. There were no speeches, but several motion pictures | of base ball and golf were shown. | List of Diners. | Those attending the dirner: Walter Johnson, Walter Johnson, jr., Eddie Johnson, Thomas F. Flaherty, Dr. Bruce L. Taylor, Arthur Tilghman, | | Fred Young, John Bartlett, former gov | ernor of New Hampshire; Kirk Miller, | Walter R. McCallum, Joe Judge, Con- | troller General J. R. McCarl, James | L. Baity, Frank Bogardus, Frark Yates, | | Harry ~“Dykes, Peter Jackson, Alex | Armour, Hugh L. Kerwin, J. G. Whil- side, Samuel Steinberger, Ossie Bluege, | Dr. John Flanagan, Postmaster William | M. Mooney, Harry Action, N. L. Good- | man, Archie Clark, Joseph B. Murphy | and Representative J. M. Mead of New York. | .From far-away California, where Joe Cronin is leaving shortly for the Biloxi training camp, came a_telegram to Johnson at the dinner, which read as follows: “Best wishes to Walter. Finest character in base ball. May he lead our team to the pennant. Joe Cronin.” A suggestion was made at the dinner | that the strcet which is being cut through opposite the Georgia avenue | entrance to Griffith Stadium be named | “Johnson place,” in honor of the present | manager of the ball team. . | WORLD RECORD IS TIED | ‘Benrd of Auburn Does 70-Yard Hurdles in 8 Seconds. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., February 21 (P)—A world record was tied at the Union College Bcard track and field games here today. Percy Beard of {Alablma Polytechnic Institute, South- ern Intercollegiate Conference cham- | plon, topped the 70-yard low hurdles in | 8 seconds to tie the world record set | here last year by Sol Furth of New | York University. Nelscn Greer of Texas University, in winning the special 600-yard run, broke the meet record. His time was 1:17 1-5. Five other meet records were broken. AR | IGH hopes for an American | League pennant will go with Walter Johnson from more IN',000-YARD RACE NORDELL S VCTOR 557 -outs, to be held this Spring minute and & half in the second round. It was a battle between 175-pounders. Jack Quigley of Norfolk won over| Willie Essenger of Washington in a 135- | pound class bout which found the boys | willing mixers. Quigley won after Es- senger's seconds grabbed his arm. Roddy Davis had the best of Kid Bokus in a 145-pound encounter. Sol- dier Burke won over Alfred Freeman, who_substituted for China Pollock, in a 175-pcund tilt, and Harry Grove, | Mohawk A. C. substituting for Paul Bruen, knocked cut Whitey Saylor in » 135-pound battle Chief White Feather tossed Tiger, schoolboy sensation and now a Reynolds out of the ring in their 5 | | wrestling match so energetically as to freshman at New York Univer- render the latter unconscious, in which |Sity, won the 1,000 yards run, feature | | condition he remained until removed to | event of the Metropolitan A. A. U.| Emergency Hospital. Attendants there | championships, here tonight. said he had a possible jaw fracture. He | will be given an X-ray examination to- | 1nompson of the New York Central day. A. A, finished second, 3 yards behind. Joe ‘Turner tossed Dutch Greene, |Gene Venzke of the Swedish-American Mohawk A. C., in another wrestling A. C., was third. The time was 2:19%;. | bout. i | _Ira Singer. a transfer student to New ARt Ve | York University from Ohio State, won COLUMBUS U. SWAMPED | the 60-yard title in 635 seconds. Annexes Mefropolitan Meet Feature—Sexton Is Best ' | in Shotput. ! By the Associated Press | EW YORK, February 21 Ar‘rank‘ Nordell, former Philadelphia Charles | The 2-mile run was just a breeze for Gus Moore of the Brooklyn harriers. He led from start to finish to hang Potomac State Commits One Foul up his ninth consecutive victory of the in Winning Game, 54:90, | indoor campaign. He ran the distance |in 9:3025 to lead Frank Bayley, New KEYSER, W. Va.., February 21.—Co- | York A, C.; George Barker, New York lumbus University of Washington gave University, and Sam Grodman, also of Potomac State College basket ball team | N. Y. U, to the tape. | the opportunity to hand up some sort _ With the withdrawal of George of a record here tonight when only one | Spitz, indoor record holder at 6 feet 7 | foul was charged to it as it won from | inches, the high jump title went to the the visitors 54 to 20. intercollegiate champion, William B. | Pive State players split 20 field goals O'Connor of Columbia. O'Connor’s | evenly. winning leap was 6 feet 3 inches. Line-upe: | Leo Sexton, former Georgetown S Bt | athlete competing for the New York e A. C., won the shotput with a heave T Smi of 47 feet 2 inches. F HYATTSVILLE HIGH BOWS | B Thomat Gower, |Stopped by Takoma-Silver Spring After Nine Wins in Row. Rallying in_the final minutes, Ta- koma-Silver Spring High School bas- keters conquered Hyattsville High, 26 to 24, last night at Silver Spring. ‘The defeat broke a Hyattsville win streak which had extended to nine |gamés and it also was the first loss for Hyattsville at the hands of a State op- ponent this season. Hyattsville trimmed the Montgomery County team earlier in the campaign. Taking an /early lead Hyattsville coL, Y & U. (20). G.F.Pt Ak e ] | New 2| acssrnann eov3navol 2l nwoossom ol sossssss anco0208a 8 Totals... Referee—Mr. Li Fal mommosmn VIRGINIA BOXERS AHEAD PHILADELPHIA, February 21.—Vir- ginia boxers, with plenty of skill and punching power, sent Pennsylvania ringsters to defeat today, 5 to 2. Summaries: 113-POUND CLASS—Jack Paul (Virginia) defeated Charies Kazmersky (Penn). De- L POUND CLASS—Bob_Goldstein (Vir. i fio:!flnl‘e,? Oapt. u‘-‘mn Bhadel (Penn). |stayed there until the home team pu sion in three rou lon -ditz - O UND CEATE Mike Lagiia (vir. |OF its last-ditch rally that brought vic- sinia) defested Irvin Glass (Penn). De- | 'OTY. i R . fesied “Larry ‘Loeb. Decision Th"knges | Suver-Sweing, ;m‘s 160-POUND CLASS—Ben Broselow (Penn) deteated Dour Myers (Virginia). Decision s ND_CLASS—Fentor | cision 125. Hyattsville (24). GF. n Gentry (Vir- eated Harry Weeks (Penn). De- cision in_three rounds HEAVYWEIGHT CLASS—Reiss (Virginia) won by forfeit. e — P 1 ] 1 1 1 [] o 4 SAM JONES. OODSFIELD, Ohio, February 21 ().—Thirty-eight years young, Samuel P. (Sad Sam) Jones was busy today packing bags and bidding good-by to Winter cronies as he prepared, for the eighteenth time, to start for a big league training camp to condition him- self for the long grind this Summer. Jones will leave this town Monday for Biloxi, Miss., where he joins the vanguard of Walter Johnson's Washing- | ton Senators. Jones' eighteenth year as a big league hurler is surpassed in the | American League only by Urban Faber of the Chicago White Sox for consecu- | average of . tive years of service. the Yankees started one year earlier than Jo but missed one year. Despite an injury and iliness that |Pe kept him out of the line-up for more than a month last year, Jones won 15 Rave them a clean slate of 12 wins for and lost 7 games, to finish well up in |the season in which they have averaged the list of ths American League hurl- | OVer 40 points a game. ers. The year before he was even better, wmnl;‘lgs 17 and losing 7 for an Sad Sam is proud of his record in the majors and wants to extend to 20 years of consecutive service. this reason he stays in trainh Winter long, hiking over the hill all series of calisthenics every day. YOUNG PROS SHINE IN'BRITISH TRIALS |Walker Cup Aspirants on Whole Don’t Warm Up to New U. S. Ball. Br the Associated Press. EST BROMWICH, England, February 21.—Using the new lighter and larger golf ball adopted by the United States Golf Association, Great Britains younger professionals made & good showing today in the first trial matches to decide the make-up of the British Ryder Cup team. The old guards, led by Charles Whitcombe, cup' team captain, could only split even today in 12 matches with the youngsters, who were captained by C. H. Corlett. Whitcombe’s squad won four, lost four and halved four. ‘Whitcombe could only halve with A. J. Lacey, young London pro, who con- sistently outdrove him. Lacey, 8. A. Easterbrook, W. J. Branch and A. H. Pagham were con- sidered as likely candidates for the team after today’s play. The professionals did not seem to take kindly to the new ball, which they will use at Columbus, Ohio, in the cup matches in June, several turning in scores in the 80s. Lacey and Whitcombe seemed to find little difficulty with the new ball, how- ever, marking up 18-hole cards of 73s. The new ball is not used in tourna- ments on this side, the Royal and :'nfilent Club standing pat on the old CANADA IS NEUTRAL ON NEW GOLF BALL| |Permits Its Use in Tournaments, but Won't “Adopt” It Unless Britain Does. By the Associated Press. ‘TORONTO, Ontario, February 21.— The Executive Committee of the Royal Canadian Golf Assoclation, meeting to- day in annual convention, steered a middle course between the Royal and Ancient Club of Great Britain and the United States Golf Association as to the type of ball to be used in Canadian tournaments. President Alfred Collyer of Montreal, in making his report for the year, said the Executive Committee had decided to legislate no change in the ball un- less the ruling body of Great Britain should, but that the larger and lighter | ball adopted by the United States Golf Association may be used in Canadian tournaments if the contestants 8o de- stre. He urged that the present handica | limit of eight for entrants in the Cana- dian national tournaments be lowered further. VIRGINIA FENCERS WIN. UNIVERSITY, Va., February 21.— Virginia's newly organized fencing club won first home match, 5 bouts to 4, from William and Mary. Capt. Abram: and Wadsworth, Virginia, both' won two bouts, |in that event. SHUTE'S 142 T0PS PENSACOLA FIELD Has Two Fine Golf Rounds to Set Pace in $3,000 Open Tourney. By the Assoclated Press. ENSACOLA, Fla., February 21.— Denny Shute, slender black- haired Columbus, Ohio, profes- sional, today shot two flne( olf for a 36-hole total o {(;gns; !oefldg the fleld at half mark in the 72-hole Pensacola $3,000 open tournament. Shute burned up the country club course in his morning round for a 69, 2 under par, but ran into difficulties in the afternoon, to finish with a 73. card showed four birdies for the first| round and two for the afternoon. Except for Shute’s 69 this morning, & similar score by Whiffy Cox of Brooklyn | in the second round and Tony Mlnel;‘l.': 70, this lengthy "course heid its barrier unbroken. Two links masters from Chicago—Al Espinosa and Harry Cooper—coupled a pair of steady rounds of 71 and 72 for 143 and a tie for second place. Horton Smith of New York turned in a 71 this morning, but slum| back to 73 in the second round and finished with 144, which tied him with Cox. el Bracketed at 145 were two formex | Siycs: | national open champlons—Johnny Far- | rell of St. Augustine and Willie Ma farland of Tuckahoe, N. Y. Farrell, who won last year's tuornament here, had the same score at the 36-hole mark Farrell blamed his poor putting for his “not having registered in the late 60s on both rounds, as h long game was great, Craig Wood, Deal, N. J, came next with 146. young professional from Chicago, was alone at 147. The final 36 holes will be played to- morTow. Basket Results Navy, 36; Maryland, 33. Maryland Freshme) Brooklyn Knights Georgetown, 23. Potomac State, 54: Columbus U., 20. Penn State, 23; Pittsburgh, 13. Dartmouth, 18; Yale, 17. Virginia, 48: Sewanee, 15. North Carolina, 30: V. M. I, 21. Notre Dame, 27; Butler, 19. Michigan, 33; Indiana, 24. Minnesota, 22; Ohlo State, 21. Northwestern, 40; Iowa, 30. Pennsylvania, 26; Cornell, 22. Georgla Tech, 41; South Carolina, 17. Temple 52; Carnegie Tech, 25, Presbyteri: 40; Woffard, 30. Purdue, 46; Wisconsin, 27. Tllinois, 45; Chicago, 22. Creighton, 30; Syracuse, 23. Army, 49; West Virginia, 40. Citadel, 22; Davidson, 21. Adrian, 40; John Carroll, 37. Princeton, 42; Cathedral College, 27. Oklahoma, 26; Iowa State, 21. Kansas Aggles. 21: Missourl, 14. Texas A. & M, 25; Southern Metho- dist, 23. 7 avy Plebes, 36. of Columbus, 28; | Arkansas, 37: Oklahoma A. & M., 23. Baylor, 34; Texas, 21. | Furman, 37; Newberry, 35 (extra period). Loyola (Baltimore), 43; Johns Hop- kins, 25. South Dakota, 26; North Dakota, 22. North Central, 36; Western Illinois Nor- | mal, 25. Lawrence, 38; Coe, 11. is | Frank Walsh, accomplished | NAVY FIVE WINNER OVER MARYLAND U. Gains 36-t0-33 Triumph in Stirring Tilt—OId Line Cubs Beat Plebes. Special Dispatch to The Star. NNAPOLIS, Md,, February 21.— Desperate fighting late in the first half and the early stages of the second and skiliful work by Loughlin and Bedell, youngsters for- ward and guard, gave the Naval Acad-| emy a victory over the University of | Maryland at basket ball today, 36 to 33. | Late in the first half, Maryland led by | 16 to 8, but in the last three minutes of the period, Loughlin dropped three goals from the floor, the last being a sensational one-hand shot from the| side. This left the count 16 to 14 in | favor of Maryland at intermission. Early in the second half, the score | was knotted at 17 and again at 19. Then | Loughlin scored his fourth field goal | after a clever pass from Bedell and the | Navy never was headed. | Eight minutes before the end of the game the Navy led by 29 to 22, when Maryland started a rally which put it within one point of its rival, 32 to 31, with two minutes to play. At this stage Bedell scored for the | Navy on a pass from Bauer and May counted for Maryland. In the final minute, Bauer, pinch hit- ting for Captain Freshour, scored ln-‘ other field goal for the Navy. Maryland smoothed ihings out to some extent after the defeat of the | &a;ssxty by winning from the Plebes, 46 A feature of the game was the fine, long-range shooting of three of the guards, Snyder and Buscher of Mary- | land and Carroll of Navy. Each got five | goals from the floor. | | The Maryland Cubs got an early lead, being in front 26 to 13 at the end of the first half. | Herb Pennock of Maryland, but the victory gave the For | Bedell, g s of | Monroe County and going through a | ‘The Plebes rallied somewhat after in- | | termission but were met by a fast re- | | turn on the part of the Old Liners. | It was the first time in three years that the Navy varsity has scored over | Midshipmen at 4-to-3 edge in a series lh‘i! dhu now lasted over a seven-year riod. The triumph of Maryland Freshmen NAVY (3 | Lo Soms Bowstrom, ©l oounsonon | moww! | Totals.....1s 8 36 % Referee—Mr. Voith. Loyola. | PLEBES (36) h, f GFPis M 31 L] ol vronoosuy Blomonsd | aoworound =4 .15 636 Totals.....l | | Mr. Lilly, Baltimore Poly. . JOHNNY WEIBEL BURIED F——— | Former Teammates at Notre Dame | Act as Pallbearers. ERIE, Pa, February 21 (#)—Dr. John D. (Johnny) Weibel, guard on | the famous Notre Dame foot ball team | of 1924, was buried here today with | four of his mates from the famed gridiron squad among the pall bearers. The pall bearers included Adam Walsh, Elmer Layden, James Bach and Don Miller, all teammates of Weibel at Notre Dame. The death of Welbel was the first break” in the ranks of the famous eleven composed of the “seven mules” and the “four horsemen.” TECH BEATS STAUNTON Takes Early Lead in Scoring on Court by 41 to 31. ‘Tech High, playing in its own gym last night, had a rather easy time in| turning back the Staunton Military Academy five, 41 to 31. Tech got out in front early and held 2 25 to 15 lead at intermission. Line-ups: ‘Tech (4 Staunton F. Russell, . Catman, Reichardt, | aorm Sy Sl eonoame Q! | o PLAY FOR TENNIS TITLE D. C. Netmen Have Chance for In-| door Laurels in Baltimore Matches. Washington's indcor tennis team is all set for a final bid for the Baltimore | ‘Winter League crown against Clifton Park racketers, the league leaders, to be met this afternoon on the 5th Regiment Armory courts in Baltimore at 2:30 o'clock. The Washingtonians by winning eight of the nine matches exn land the league flag, which they captured last Winter. Making up Washington's team will be Dooly Mitchell, Bob Considine, Colin Stam, Eddie Yeomans, Frank Shore, Bill | Buchanan and Clyde Yeomans. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. HROUGH Manager John Mc- Inerney the Georgetown Prep basket ball team today issued a claim to the scholastic champion- ship of the District area following its win yesterday over Eastern High. The Garrett Parkers chal- lenged Cathedral School, which alone disputes their claim. Central High girls yesterday de- feated Western lassies at basket ball. It was the first appearance of Western against a District high school sextet. Central’s line-up in- cluded Misses Brill, Seibold, Moody, Humphries, Johnson, Stine and Coltan. Representing Western were Hoscond, Mahr, S(t)ulrt. ern were the referees. yan. ¢ | McDonald, Will Rate Grid Games in South EXINGTON, Ky., (#)—The task of determining the importance of Southern Conference foot ball games in ad- vance and assigning officials for them according to the officials’ standing will be undertaken by & committee at a meeting in Atlanta, Ga., February 28. The conference created a central booking office for officials at its an- nual meeting in North Carolina last December and a committee com- posed of the president and secretary of the conference and the secretary of the booking office will classify the MALONEY-CARNERA =z SORAP BAN HINTED Would End Garden Tilt With N. Y. Body, Paving Way to Sharkey-Primo Go. BY EDWARD J. NEIL. BY the Associated Press. games. The the conference secretary. Members of the conference must have their requests for officials in the hands of the committee before March 1, Dr. Funkhouser said. 5. U. QUINT BEATEN BY BRODKLYN K . Hoyas Overcome Big Early Lead of Visitors, but Give Way, 28-23. EORGETOWN'S basket ball team lost another game, 28 to 23, last night in the Ryan gymnasium, but the Hoyas are putting it down as a sort of moral vic- tory. Minus the services of Dillon, regular | center, and two second-stringers, | Leavey and McKail, the Hoyas, off to a wretched start and on the short end |of a 15-to-3 score five minutes before half time, suddenly awoke from their lethargy and outpassed, outshot and outsmarted the rangy Brooklyn Knights | | of Columbus five until five minutes be- fore the final whistle.. After the Caseys gained a 15-to-3 margin, the Hoyas, with a flurry of 2-pointers, gave the handful of fans -:”':‘hnu by pulling up, 14 to 17, at half e. Bozek's foul and Murphy's flelder knotted the count and Johnny Scalzi followed with another free toss to send the Hilltoppers into the lead for the first time shortly after resumption of play. It was a nip-and-tuck battle then until, with six minutes to go, Georgetown's cagers faded and the Knights stepped on the gas to win. Line-ups: Brookiyn (28). ] Georgetown (23 ), | Benedict, 1. ot Gt ees King, 1. Maczees, Homrissagll McMenney, oronmoy Keating, ol meooornnQ &l owouswoo: Totals ....13 4 28 Referee—Mr. Ford. QUAKER’S LONG TOSS OF SHOT IS WASTED Steiner Beats Eastern Collegiate Record, but Conditions Won't Permit Recognition. By the Assoclated Press. RHILADELPHIA, February 21— Fred Steiner, glant University of Penn- sylvania athlete, whose home is in Cal- ifornia, today threw the 35-pound weight 54 feet 5 inches, exceeding the Eastern intercollegiate record of 53 feet 11% inches, made by N. G. Wright of Cornell in 1928. His figures will not stand as a record | as the throw was made in a handicap | meet conflnded o Pennsylvania men was made from a siight] pllcuonn. ghtly raised ‘arol Coan, who won fame by beatin; Ray Conger in the Baxter mils in New | York last Monday night, stepped out of his favorite distance run and finished third in a 600-yard race with Leslie Schaeffer and Johnny Kerr. Schaefer finished first in 1 minute 15 6-10 seconds, | The handicap meet was the fourth of [ ;:;‘fi, he](}d by Pennsylvania men e guidance of Cos Robertson, © ey MRS. HURD EASY VICTOR. HAMILTON, Bermuda, February 21 (#).—Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd of Philadelphia, former United States champion, easily defeated Mrs. Maud | Ross of Ottawa, 7 and 6, in the 36-hole final round of the Belmont or | Ladies’ Golf Tournament here today. Varied Sports ‘Wrestling. Nayy, 33; West Virginia, 3. Army 18; Harvard, 16. Missouri, 31, Kansas, 3, Boxing. Navy 6. West Virginia, 1. Army, 6'3; New York U, 1%, Swimmin, Michigan, 55; Minnesota, 20. Yale, 54; Columbia, 17. Penn, 31; Navy, 0. Princeton, 47; Dartmouth, 24. Franklin and Marshall, 39; Johns Hop- kins, 20. Track. Illinois, 54; Notre Dame, 44. Kansas State, 65; Missouri, 28. ‘Western Teachers, 62; Butler, 42. Iowa, 63; Minnesota, 41. Wisconsin, 46; Ohio State, 42. Chicago, 22; Northwestern, 20. Water Polo, Navy, 52; Penn., 18. Navy Plebes, 65; Penn Freshmen, 2. Polo. Army, 8; Penn Military College, 6. ‘Gymnastics. Dartmouth, 914, Michigan, 844. Navy, 4424 Tilinols, 1,163 Navy, 10; Tinois, 14; Michigan, 3. Lafayette, 13; St. Johns, 4. = Hockey. a3 , 3 3 Ylll:’q Princeton, 1. Michigan, 3; Wisconsin, Canadian-American gue. Georgetown walloped _Baltimore City College, 50 to 31, at basket ball last night. i & Springfield, 6; Pro dg, 4. Boston Bruins, 4; Philadelp) “¥ows; 3. " meeting was announced by | Dr. W. D. Punkhouser of Lexington, | Bl amowomsm! Ar- | Montreal EW YORK, February 21.—It may be just a suspicion, { but the wisest of New | York's fistic railbirds are 1noddlng knowingly over the in- {jury of Primo Carnera in Miami, insisting that complete revision of the heavyweight program for the { Summer and Fall of 1931 is about to take place. This shake-up in the plans for the | big fellows—and there is no question | the powers-that-be have been confer- ring busily for days—would wipe out the fracas of Jimmy Maloney and the Italian Alp, probably _eliminate the Mickey Walker-Johnny Risko setto, and would pave the way for a friendly and open resumption of heavyweight rela- tions between the New York State At] letic Commission and officials of Mad: son Square Garden. The object, 50 the wise ones insist, is a major heavyweight show for New York this coming Summer with Jack Sharkey, the favorite son, storming out of one corner to swap socks with none other than Carnera. Under the present order of things, this can never be ar- ranged unless the Garden makes its { peace with the solemn solons of the State boxing laws. Both New York-run Shows. Both the Carnera-Maloney and the Risko-Walker shows in Miami are to be staged in_the Winter arena of Madison Square Garden Corporation which links the New York organization with both promotions in the eyes of the local commission. All four of the main bout principals are under ban here, As'a result the Garden faces even more disciplinary prospects at the hands of the commission than are scheduled to follow the signing of Max Schmeling |and Young Stribling, formerly another New York outlaw, by the Illinois Madl son Square Garden Corporation for a championship match in June. So the way out for all concerned, so the wise ones aver, for Madison Square Garden to placate the commis- sion by halting, if it can, both of the heavyweight shows scheduled for Miami this Winter. It is pointed out th. the commission might then be mollified to the extent of countenancing a Stribling- Schmeling match_in Chicago without gm-m:s and a Sharkey-Carnera duel ere. . Ready for Walker-Risko Go. MIAMI, Fla, February 21 (#).—The first of Miami's two Winter fistie carni- vals under the palms, featuring a 10- round bout between Mickey Walker and Johnny Risko next Tuésday night, drew the spotlight of preparations to- day with an assortment of ballyhoo stunts. o 2 Their training completed, Walker and Risko joined in the demonstration |of Welcom to Max Schmeling, German | holder of the world heavyweight cham- pionship. The Dempseyesque Teuton puncher was greeted with flowers, music and a parade on his arrival with his manager, Joe Jacobs, and two sparring mates. On tour in the interests of the build~ up for his title match with Young Stribling, probably at Chicago in_June, Schmeling will appear on the Risko- Walker card in a three-round exhibi- tion. So will Stribling, who varied the monotony of ti ing routine today by | taking two newspaper friends for an | airplane _ride, during which he gave | them a thrill by executing several ver- tical turns with his cabin plane. | ““Pa” Stribling, headman of the fa- mous Georgia_fighting clan and pro- moter of next Tuesday's show, an- nounced that the latest impetus to box office activities assured financial suc- cess. The “gate,” he figures, will be at | least $50,000 at top_price of $5, and may go &s high as $75,000. Walker will concede upward of 320 pounds to the rough and tumble Risko. Leon See, French manager of Primo Carnera, after failing yesterday to ob- tain & postponement of Primo’s bout with Jimmy Maloney here March 5, due to the Italian’s damaged rib, issued a statement today saying he would re- fuse to second & “wounded man” in the ing. “Even if Primo is well on March § he will not have been able to train and he will be absolutely out of condi- tion,” said See. “Primo will be helped during the fight—this is the first time in history—by doctors instead of sec- onds since the commission has agreed to allow medical attention in his cor- ner. I refuse to accept the slightest responsibility for this uneven fight..” EASTERN DOG DERBY GOES TO ST. GODARD | Gets Another Major Prize With Best Elapsed Time in Race of 120 Miles. By the Associated Pre: QUEBEC, Quebec, February 21.—An- other of the East’s major mushing prizes, the Eastern International Derby, fell into the hands of youtl Emil St. Godard of the Pas, Manitoba, although he finished second to Earl Brydges of Cranberry Manitoba, in the third and , captured first place, & blue , & silver cup and $1,000 in cash the best elapsed time for the grind of more than 120 miles. The final standing with times for to- lday‘s lap and total elapsed time fol- lows: ribbo! with . 4:06:05 St. Godard, the Pas... 132:08:1 Brydges, Cranberry Port- oy ze 4:05 Dp: Girard, Quebec . Russick. Flin Flon.. La Pointe, Quebec Quebe Martel, Quebec Bourdoln, Quebec’ .. Routhier,’ Quebec .. >ORO0>BOE mm Hockey Scores National League, Canadiens, 6; New York Am ‘Toronto, 4; Boston, 2. - International League, Buffalo, 2; Pittsburgh, 2 (overtime tle), AMERICAN LEAGUE. Kansas City, 1; Maroons,