Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1931, Page 41

The WASHINGTON, pening Staf. B O, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1931. Radio and Classified PAGE D—1 West’s Arm Believed O. K. Once More : Dixie Colleges in Trio of Title Meets NO SORENESS NOW INLINB SAM SAYS Johnson, Martin Also Hold Griff Outfielder Again in Good Trim. _ BY DENMAN THOMPSON. ILOXI, Miss.,, February 26.— Sam West is as fit as a fid- dle. At least he says he is, Trainer Mike Martin is sure of it and Manager Walter Johnson is inclined to think so after seeing his prize fly hawk in action for the first time since late last sea- son, when West was relegated to the bench with a wing lameness that had every one connected with the club in a welter of apprehen- sion that his playing days might be ended. That steel-like left arm which had whipped out s0 many runners at the late before a recurrence last Septem- 'r of the ailment with which he was stricken during Spring training a year Ag0 once more appears as sound as Sever and Sammy 1f is _convinced g&t neither Harry Rice nor Dave Har- to give his arm a thorough rest and Teport back for an examination during the holidays. When he showed up in the Capital around Christmas time a a;vy of learned losed & small chipped bone, there was no need for an op- eration. No Arm Trouble Lately. Accordingly he was packed off back to the Lone Star State, this time with give it plenty of did, his of inconveniengce since. | Pilot Joh: naturally is elated to | learn that the youngster, who has no | superiors in the business of going and | getting 'em in the outer stretches of | the field, seems likely to be under no handicap from that old trouble of his. Walter not only is anxious to | have Sam available throughout the| Season, because of ef. But West's fine condition was not all Johnzon had reason to feel gratified over in regard to the first official work- | out of the Nationals in preparation for | ON THE SIDE LINES With the Sports Editor By DENMAN THOMPSON. ILOXI, Miss., February 26.— The extent to which south paw pitching will prove a factor in the showing of the Nationals this season probably is not fully appreciated by the rank and file of the team'’s followers. By this is meant not only the measure of effectiveness attained by their left-handed hurlers against alien batsmen, but also the success achieved by Manager Walter John- son's swatsmiths in coping with the offerings of the portside pitchers they will be called upon to face. As to the latter there are fairly good reasons for believing more punch will be displayed by the Cap- ital City crew this year than last. One of them is that there will be available for the entire campaign the services of Dave Harris, the powerfully built outfielder obtained in trade for Rcd Barnes from the ‘White Sox last June, who is the only orthodox hitting gardener on_ the roster and who distinguished him- self last season by topping all the pinch hitters in the circuit in per- centage of timss he delivered bingles needed in emergencies. Another reason is that there will be at hand this year in the person of Pinky Hargrave a stick wielder of turn-about proclivities who can punish the lefties when he is in the proper physical condition, as it seems assured he will be from re- sults attained by his Winter train- ing activities. And still another is the presence in a Washington uniform for the first time of Harry Rice. This one- time Brown and Tiger, purchased this Wintér from the New York Yankees, although a southpaw swinger, never has been bothered by pitchers of that ik, as his lifetime average of more than .300 attests. And it is the firm belief of the local management that the veteran never has fully developed the extent of his capabilities in an attacking way. Then, too, there is the conviction felt hereabout that Sam West, who has borne the reputation of being weak against portsiders s.nce the day, back in 1926, when he was beaned by Mel Settizmire in a Southern Association tilt, has fully recovered from that near-fatal ex- perience. This certainly is the con- clusion, at least, to be drawn from the fact that last season, used against all brands of boxmen, the far-roaming ccnter fielder hung up the very creditable average of .328. S for the finging angle of the thing, although it is possible that Lynn Griffith, the amply proportioned purchase from Joplin of the Western Association and king of all organized base ball's strike- out artists in 1930, and Carl Fischer, the smoke-ball purveyor from Newark, may come through in gratifying style, it is on the potential ability of Holdovers Lloyd Brown and Bob Burke that the hopes of ‘Washington fandom are principally based. Brown is & moundsman whc never has been accorded the credit he de- serves. Last year, for instance, al- though not rated in advance as a regular, he not only proved the early- season pitching mainstay of the club, winning something like five of his first six games and against the strongest opposition the circuit had to offer, but he wound up with no fewer than 16 triumphs to his credit, a total of wins which was exceeded by only seven slingers in the loop and was tied by only one, And Brownie is but 25 years old. As for Burke, this slender slab- man, one year the junior of his mate, although he was able to achieve brackets on only three oc- casions during the campaign, as against a quartet of reverses, gave evidence of his caliber by landing " seventh place in the earned runs rating with the highly creditable mark of 3.65. It will occasion no surprise whatever to good judges of pitching if he breaks through as a consistent winner this season. No less an authority than President Clark Griffith, something of a pitcher him- self back in the old days, is con- fident that Burke has a bright future on the hill, and that con- fidence has not been weakened by the fact that the youngster has been around for four full seasons without yet attaining to the status of a regular, When he was drafted from Little Rock of the Southern Association in the Fall of 1926 Burke was dubbed the prize string bean of base ball, so thin was he, and all artificial efforts to put meat on his bones failed. Nature gradually has been taking care of that item, however, and as it is contended that south- paws develop far more slowly than their right-handed hgethren any- how, there would seem to be some basis for the belief that Bob is about to earn a full-time berth. Possessed of a cross-fire delivery that naturally is troublesome, it is the opinion of Pilot Johnson that all Burke needs to gain 50 per cent in effectiveness is confidence in his fast ball, for Bob boasts of a hard one with which he ought to be able to bust ‘em by the hitters who have made it a practice of waiting for his dinky hook. | STREET, CARDS’ PILOT, LIKES HIS CATCHERS Declares He Has Best Three-Man Staff in Game—Recruits Giants Beiieved In Hold-Out Pact N'!W YORK, February 26—A conspiracy on the signing of their 1931 contracts exists q “Rip” Collins from the Browns' train- | New York Yankees' pitchers, who so | Sox camp with a batting barrage. PLAYERS' ABSENGE STIRS TWO CLUBS Stewart, Collirs Missing at Browns’ Camp—Sewell Is Worrying Tribe. ‘T PALM BEACH, PFla, February 26 (#).—The con- tinued absence of Pitchers Walter Stewart and Warren ing camp here today caused rumors they were holding out. Stewart was good enough to win 20 games for the sixth-place Browns last season. Infleld practice was sched- uled for today, the first of the training grind. Manager Bill Killefer said all the men in camp were rounding into shape satis- | factorily. NEW ORLEANS, February 25 (#).— Luke Sewell's continued absence is be-| coming embarrassing to the Cleveland | Indians as Manager Roger Peckinpaugh nurses his batterymen into condition. ‘The absence of Sewell leaves only Sprinz and Myatt on the catching staff, and if the regular backstop doesn't put 1£ dwdly helll have some explaining 0. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., February 26 (#)—The new American League ball has not made much difference to the| far have only thrown straight ones across the plate and not very hard, | but it has provided Coach Art Fletcher with a phrase to pep up batting prac- tice. Every time a batter pops up an easy fly, Fletcher comments “that ball ain't 50 lively.” SACRAMENTO, Calif., February 26 (®).—The entire Detroit Tiger squad will begin training together herg next Monday. Even Marty McManus, star infielder, | let it be known he wouid be on hand, despite salary differences with the man- agement. He wants $13,000 and a $1,000 bonus. He has been offered | $12,000. The overweight squad checked out of the Richardson Springs conditioning | camp yesterday. PENSACOLA, Fia., February 26 (#).— Long Tom Winsett and Gene Rye have | started the training season at the Red In the Sox first game yesterday the long and short of the outfit chalked up two triples and a home run. The home run and a triple went to Rye and Long Tom rapped out the other three- bagge: SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. February 26 (P.—Manager Donie Bush promised Chicago ite Box pitchers they might bat today, but attached such a price to the privilege that enthusiasm waned | somewhat. For each time at bat, the hurlers They Golf to Prep for Diamond Season TWO GRIFF OUTFIELDERS AND CLUB SECRETARY AT HOT SPRINGS. HEINE MANUSH. EDDIE EYNON. SAM RICE. HYATTSVILLE QUINT TOPPLES ROCKVILLE High School Basketers Record Fourteenth Win in Fifteenth | Game With State Foes. HYATTSVILLE, Md., February 26.— Hyattsville High School's basket ball team yesterday concluded an unusually successful season, during which it won the Prince Georges County scholastic title, defeating Rockville High, 36 to 15, at Rockyille. The game was the last on Hyattsville’s regular schedule, but the team will play at least one match before Boys’ Club Is Seeking Sweep Over Public ITH four much prized scalps| —those of Western, Central, Business and Eastern— dangling from its belt, the Boys' Club big five tonight has a chance to do what only one other local quintet has accomplished this season High Basketers this season, stopped the George Wash- ington freshmen team, 54 to 47, in a game played in the Lincoln Park gym- nasium. Bill Noonan, the Light Blue's ali-high _center, checked in with 16 points, matching the total made by Fouts, the frosh pivot man. e when Tech High's court aggregation is LA played tonight at 8 o'clock in the Boys' Club gymnasium. The crack Maryland freshmen, alone | of local high school, frosh and inde- pendent teams, have taken the measure Revevomb, &. 0 Shirley, &. Totals... Totals.... 20 7 47 BASKET BALL, RING, TRACK TEAMS VIE Widely Separated Events on Tap, Starting With Court Clashes Tomorrow. BY H. C. BYRD. HREE Southern Conference T championships will be de- cided within the next three days in separate tourna- ments to be held in widely sep- arated sections of the South. Down at Atlanta the 18 strongest basket ball teams in the confer- ence get together in an elimina- tlon affair that begins tomorrow and will be concluded next week. At Charlottesville practically all conference schools that support boxing are represented in the tournament being held under the auspices of the University of Vir- ginia, while at Chapel Hill the track and field men compete in the annual indoor meet. The boxing tournament opens tomor- row and winds up Saturday night. Play in the basket ball tournament begins tomorrow at 1 o'clock and will continue with only one hour of inter- mission until 11 at night. Eight games are to be piayed and eight teams will be eliminated. Saturday four games are scheduled among eight winners of to- morrow’s contests, Monday two games will be listed, with the final to come off Tuesday night as a kind of a grand climax. The boxing tournament is almost a duplication of the basket ball tourna- ment, except that individuals instead of teams are bracketed and go h an elimination series, the winner one bracket meeting the winner of another until final winners are established. Of course, in the boxing tournament, the brackets are in classes, denoting each weight at which men fight, instead of all being bracketed in one class. The indoor meet being held at the University of North Carolina has lost & couple of entrants from the South Atlantic section but has gained four or five from the far south. The meet has now been held for two years and has won a fair measure of success, 'OMPETITION in all three of these & much higher has ever before those mwch:r‘ | Bames to develop e good play. The eame is true of |ing tournament. V! o= among the players of the New York Giants, according to the latest grist from the base ball rumor-mongers’ mill here. So_many of the rank and file of the Giants are holding out for sal- ary increases and are at loggerheads with the management that they | must do a turn around the quarter- | mile cinder track surrounding the park, |at a brisk gait. Although the second squad is not due until next Monday, Ray RadcHff from the Salley League, who 1s scheduled to play first base, was expected to report today. the American League champlonship campaign, now some six weeks cistant. Every one of the dozen and a half sthletes who exercised under his super- YVision at the spacious and well groomed fl pnm?u shape hylirzu nd i , and & o Pl & ly, couple of every club in the public high school | group. ‘The Tech-Boys’ Club game headlines today's court program as far as local fandom is concerned. Three battles were to have been piayed this after- quitting the court. It is to meet the winner of the Harford County series tcmorrow” afterncon at Hollins Hall, Baltimore, in one of the first-round games of the State title series. Which team will represent Harford County, however, has not been announced. Tony Latona and Everett Buscher, | Western's howitzers, weren't in the Red | |line-up yesterday against Landon, but | the Georgetowners didn't need them, | smashing out a 34-t0-13 win in the Western gymnasium. Line-ups: m L Impress Hornsby. colors. And this is expected to be | flected 1n a large attendance. - !be::dmr Lrllck :n %m'ah has never very ly because of a lack of facllities for indoor training, but with the construction of big = BRADENTON, Fla., February 26 (). —Mike Gonzales, who, according to Gabby Street, was “catching 'way back riffith and Walter ‘Tauscher—disported themselves in a mneanflntledthepflmwbemn bef bel.n:“;nn‘ed 1 fore armed out for further seasoning or otherwise disposed of against the coming of another year. May Have Worked Early. ‘The answer may be that Griffith, the Fangy left-hander who earned quite a Teputation as a strike-out artist with Joplin of the Western Association last season, has been working out at his | home, in Bryan, Tex, and the way ‘Tauscher also cut loose in warming up | would give the same impression. although | 4f the sizable rookies drafted from Dal- 1as of the Texas League sneaked in any advance toil it must have been either indoors or through the medium of shov. g snow, for he hails from Rhine. , Wis., where Winter is Winter, R e e any 3 felt con- Birained more than to bawl ’'em out bearing down too h with hard ones, and finally threat- ease up: 1n 't ease up. Hn&!y. Lloyd Brown Pischer did considerably more than the others, for they have at it now for several days. For Al Crowder, Art Fidler, Joe Smith, 4 i 585 § a § 8 i3 L Like Track Stuff Now. Manager Walter Johnson of the Na- tionals long has been & firm believer in the theory that a pitcher best can be prepared for pitching by first strength- ening his legs and wind, but the well known aversion of all ball players to | any form of running nas made this a difficult task. i Now Barney seems to have solved the problem. Instead of merely directing the athletes to trot a certain number of times around the track, he has sup- plied huge rubber balls inflated with air which the boys bounce to each other a3 they circle around the field, and they have so much fun in the process that all the of track work has been ARMSTRONG FIVE REPEATS Defeats Cardozo for Second Time| This Beason, 37 to 21. Armstrong High School quint defeat- ed the Cardozo tossers yesterday in the Garnet-Patterson gymnasium, 37 to 21, for its second win of the season over the St askerviite. Totals S Totals ....10 Reteree™ M 1 r. Yound SHIPLEY MIDGETR WIN. careful inspection [ stafr in my time and seems just as agile now,” is going to help coach the younger members of the Cardinals’ pitching Street belleves the old Cuban will be able to impart many valuable pointers to the juvenile flingers. said he regarded his receiving staff of Jimmy Wilson, Gus Mancuso and Gonzales as the best “threc-man catchirg staff in base ball.” AVALON. Calif., February 26 (A).— Three recruits, two pitchers and an outfielder, have caught Rogers Horns- by's eye. The hurlers, Ed Baecht and Lon Warneke, have progressed rapidly enough to cause the rajah to give them lots of personal attention. The out- flelder, Vincent Barton, who also first bases some, yesterdasy was the big shot in batting practice. CLEARWATER, Fla., February 26 (). —Wllbert Robinson, portly manager of the Brooklyn club, is perfectly willing to talk about his batting season, although he order for the 't declded he said, “but right now I like the com- bination of Frederick, Thompson, O'Doul and Herman in that order.” ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., February 26 | 4P —The Boston Braves trotted out 31 men for Manager McKechnie's inspec- | tlon today. Just one man, Veltman, is on the holdout list. Rabbit Maranville won't show up until tomorrow or Saturday because of an attack of influenza. WINTER HAVEN, Fla, February 26 (P).—Manager Burt Shotton of the Phillies called his squad out todsy for the first practice. Fifteen players, most- ly_batterymen, are in camp. Rumors were in circulation that Phil Collins, ace of the pitching staff last year, may be a holdout. “We haven't any holdouts,” Shotton told questioners. ~Asked about Chuck Klein, heavy-hitting outfielder, Shotton said he wasn't due here until March 4. PASO ROBLES, Calif,, February 26 (®).—When_the second squad of the Pittsburgh Pirates, due here Saturday, is in shape to begin the training camp series of ball games with the Yanigans, they're going to get a surprise or two. Jewel Ens put several of his rookie in- fielders through speedy drill yesterday and was highly pleased. Tony Plet, Texas second baseman, and Harry Geissberger, San Francisco, were espe- clally impressive. ‘TAMPA, Fla., February 26 P).— Bennie Frey, cnce the nemesis of the Chicago Cubs, while the Cincinnati Reds played havoc with the Bruins' changes for the Natlonal League pen- nant, has taken on considerable weight and appears in excellent condition, New Mack Hurler Shows His Speed RT MYERS, Fla., February 26 .—Hank M , glant California right-hander, who is trying out with the Philadelphia Athletics, has the entire camp won- dering how much speed he pos- sesses. Capt. Collins spied him yes- terday burning them into Mickey Cochrane. ley,” shouted Collins, “Don't cut ret.” COLLEGE PARK, Md., February 26.— Shipl 130-pound basketers downed tossers of Wi loose y “I'm not, boss,” replied the six- foot-four rookie. “This ain’t noth- uj it. alls, ¢ P Thompson is & good lead-off man,” |Brisc Arthur | have given rise to this meaty bit of gossip. It would not be the first time that such a conspiracy been entered into, but it would be a bad on the part of the players. So) es those little things rankle deeply and when the time comes to trensfer players, or perhaps to hold them be- cause they have been of value to their team, the owner is less gen- | erous than he might have been otherwise. The Giants are having the great- est trouble of any major league out- | fit with their men this season. | | PHELPS LOSES THRILLER. Phelps Trade School lost a thrilling | basket ball game to the Lakeland, Md., High in the Twelfth Street “Y” gym- nasium yesterday, 30-33. Lakeland (33). Phelps (30! | cnmwonmnd ol omoroune: gl 8l cnmaoanat Bl moomonmn! al —-ao—-uo—o; 8l wootusmat 7. Brown. Swimming. Franklin and Marshall, 41; Union, 25. Yale, 47; Brown, 15. New York U, 35; Manhattan, 15. Hockey. Dartmouth, 3; M. L. T. 1sa, 3 (American HAT has sll the earmarks of a sizzling basket ball battle 1s slated tonight for George Washington court when Bill Flester and his band of Howard A. French tossers will attempt to take the measure of the newly merged Cen- sus Enumerator - Northern Red Bird quint in an Independent League af- rair. Undaunted by their failure to check | the high-flying Skinker Eagles in the | Independent League, Earl Moser, man- ager of the Enumeraiors, and Buck Grier of the Northerns, combined forces and will test the new combina- tion togight inst the Prenchies. wmy ‘m‘gnnch floor, two of the dependent, :(umrmmr has two aces. at 9 o'cl A Jreurnmry. bflnl!:s together Grifith Consumers .a Unfted‘ 'gypewflwr Grays will get under way at 8, If the Seks Clothiers can hurdle St. | Martin’s_tonight in the District of Co- | lumbia_League they will tackle the crack Boys' Club team Saturday with the championship dangling before their eyes, ‘The G. P. O. cagers will wind up the Government Printing Office League tonight, when Job Room and Mono- type Section piay at 9 o'clock in the Central gymnasium. French Basketers to Tackle New Census-Northern Outfit HOWARD FIVE WINS With all but one of the 10 players to see action contributing to the total, Howard University's basket ball squad turned back Livingston College of Salis- bury, N. C., 35 to 20, yesterday. Howard's faculty five bowed to the freshmen, 9 to 4, in & preliminary. Line-ups: Howard. Norman. G.F.Pts Livingstone. G P.Pts .. 10 2 Wallace, 1 ol orrormunn Totals.... Basket Results Maryland, 31; Johns Hopkins, 232. Loyola, 54; Georgetown, 28. Yale, 37; Lafayette, 19. Columbus University, 32; Lynchburg College, 31. Columbus, 28; Pennsylvania, 24. ‘Wittenberg, 36; Washington and Jef- ferson, 19. Louisiana Normal, 39; Mississippl | College, 38. | ‘Wake Forest, 26; Davidson, 22. ‘Western Reserve, 30; Miami, 23. Centenary, 29; East Kentucky, 20. ‘West Kentucky Teachers, 34; How- ard, 26. , 32; Mount St. Mary's, 22. Harvard, 27; Brown, 24. Wesleyan, 41; 8 A court foe for Sunday night is sought by Jewish Community Center unlimited five. Manager Sol Stein is booking at Lincoln 5159, spafontross 115-pounders also are seek- Ing nts. al ilson e es At Wes 1746 ‘Takoma Tigers would like to make a last-minute connection with an un- limited team for a game tonight. The Tigers have the use of a gymnasium. Call Shepherd 2129 between 5:30 and 6:30 o'clock. Court scores of last night follow: Bankers’ League. Nationals, 25; District National, 22. Hibbs, 11; Commercial National, 10. Community Center League. Crescents, 75; Monroes, 10. Boys’ Club League. Christ Child, 21; Nye House, 8. Independent. Mercury Juniors, 34; “Y” Flashes, 26. Clovers 51; Company I, 12, Optimists, 21; Aztecs, 20. Shipleys, 22; St. Martin's, 14. Olmsted Grill, 44; Columbia, 31. 25l:n'.em Whirlwinds, 29; Coast Guard, Paper Mill, 39; Fort Humphreys, 31. | 8hor First Baptist, 33; Stanleys, 18. Northwesterns, 22; Georgetown, 21. Red Devils, 29; Stewarts, 25. BSacred Heart, 36; St. Western Flashes, 34; | freshmen, 47 to 9. Of a total of 25 games Hyattsville has won 19. 1Its record against Mary- land opponents has been especially im- pressive, it having captured 14 matches out of 15 from these teams. In scoring over Rockville yesterday Hyattsville led throughout except the first few minutes. Hyattsville in its last home game | walloped Benjamin Franklin University | Line-ups: Hyattsville (36) 5 1. Eer Rockville (13). | G = Steven Heyser, Baird, & | mosoommars 8l noodoawans cosconona-C r & %locconacuon ,, aeetite Cliconcul s loun oW b . Kidwell, & Headley, & Mostow, & Totals . [P IOPRRS -] ul cosconmssssos: Al vanunSaaaccoad 8 Totals COLLEGE ATHLETICS DEFENDED BY ZUPPKE U. S. School Superintendents Are Told of Good in Sports by TIllinois Coach. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, February 26.—A spirited defense of intercollegiate and inter- scholastic athletics and their results was given before school superintendents from all parts of ths country today by Robert C. Zuppke, head foot ball coach at the University of Illinois. Zuppke, addressing the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association, declared that enemies of intercollegiate sport in their search for evils, such as proselyting, “campus hysteria,” commercialism and “overemphasis,” overlook the ‘“good points from the activity.” “This whole structure built about athletic games came at first from no- where,” he said, “and grew like Topsy. Competitive athletics became the basis of a virile literature which championed the preservation of hlolo%lcnl urges. “Foot ball, especially, has made th: Nation college conscious, and has helped to bring these institutions in direct con- tact with the outside world.” MEALY’S GOAL TELLS Last-Minute Basket Means Win for Columbus Over Lynchburg. Berk Mealy sunk a last-minute field goal, his fourth of the game, just in time last night to give Columbus Uni- versity a 32-to-31 decision over Lynch- burg College Line-ups: Lynchburg (3 G Weibel, 1. Columbus (32) G.F. ts. Mealy, . 14 > ] bl Bl movaoutie” P [y 32 e g ; 10 1 Sl noovooon; noon, Central trekking to Annapolis to play the St. John's frosh, Western ¥ playing host to Gonzaga and George- town Prep doing likewise to Mount St. Joseph’s Prep. e s The local high school quintets did |1 well yesterday. Central, Western and Eastern took on foes, and with the,| exception of Eastern, the victorles were | decisive. | Eastern’s quint, for the second time 20 YEARS AGO || IN THE STAR. WENTY-EIGHT players are scheduled to begin training when the Washington base ball camp opens withfn the next few days at Atlanta, Those listed to be on hand include Moyer, Bherry, BStreet, Ainsmith, Gessler, Ralston, Corbin, Conway, Somerlot, Bunting, Keefe, Miller Cunningham, Elberfeld, Groom, Johnson, Walker, Otey, McBride, Schaefer, Milan, Conroy, Hughes, Henry, Lelivelt, Gray, Swain and Bussey. : Georgetown's foot ball schedule for next Fall does not include ‘Washington and Lee and North Carolina, which have appeared on the Blue and Gray's grid card for several years. Capt. Edwards announces that the National Guard track meet March 9 will be the biggest in the annals of the event. Special features will include boxing between Kid Sulli- van and Danny O'Brien and wrest- ling between Joe Grant and Nick Georgetown Prep beat Business High yesterday in a dual track meet with gymnastic features. Golden of the Prep team was the individual star. Georgetown Prep will hold a track meet May 13, next. The event will fill the spot formerly held by the Tome School meet, which has been abandoned. LANGLEY SAILOR NINE FLEET TITLE WINNER Beats California for Laurels inf 8-t0-6 Game Played at Balboa. By the Associated Press. ALBOA, Canal Zone, February 26.— Jack Tar, having concluded more than @ hard day’s work in m“h ivers, is putting in some time at y. » A base ball team from the aircraft carrier ley yesterday won the Bat- tle Fleet onship from the bat- tleship California by a score of 8 to 6. They will now play the team from the llrglne carrier Wright for the cham- plonship of the Scouting and Battle P’lfeeta. which are anchored in the bay off Balboa. Officers of the fleet and of H. M. S Nelson, which is anchored in the har- bor here alongside the U. S. S. Texas, have engaged in friendly tennis and golf matches, victories for the Americans resulting. These were partly Aiherican_offgers’ from whom. pisyers 2] ‘whom could be chosen. & Western. Landon. 4 Prindle, 1. B onerooory sevuoowu? Bummers, Totals 36 Totals Silver Spring’s basket ball club was | no match for Central yesterday, drop- | ping & 43-to-16 decision as Biil Burke, rrank Cumberland and Gene Swift | bombarded the hoop: Line-ups: Central Cum'lai Totals..... ECAUSE they played with the Montrose quint in its game with the Boys' Club, ‘Everett Buscher and Tony Latona have been suspended from the Western court squad and will not be available for the remaining|j, three games on the ' Georgetowners’ schedule—tilts with Gonzaga and the frosh of G. W. and C. U. Prep school tossers batted .500 yes- terday. Landon’s defeat by Western and another sock on the ncse to Emer- son by Episcopal were evened up when ‘Woodward and St. Alban’s cracked out wins, ‘The victory of the Woodward five was just a scoring bee for George Groff, center, who literally burned up the cords with a dozen double-deckers and & pair of fouls for 26 points. Mount Rainier, Woodward’s opponent, was able to cash in with but 12 pointers. Scores, 55 to 12. Line-ups: Woodward (5 \ Mt. Rainier (12). ). Q oy iy Sl awoaBonons? roorornd. unonbionora wl oroomsssss ; Totals...... 5 3 13 As Groff beat Mt. Rainier, so did Bob Freeman beat Swavely for St. Al- ban's. Ever a leading scorer for St. Alban's, Freeman again topped 'em all with 20 points as Swavely 54 to 19. Line-ups: 8t. Alban's Craighill, McGee, 1. ! ooommroly wooruwoal Shippen, Tots Blaononcon?. 8 319 Emerson's cage squad failed to change its way yesterday and dropped another game, 55 to 9, to Episcopal in the Alex- andrians’ gymnasium. Emerson 8 Draper, ¢t Central High's floor. enter the Washington a ball tournament, announced Coggins will not e basket ?Nh Bert nasiums or fleld houses in many is being improved to a great extent and is be! Teflected in greater attendance at the indoor games. Coach Bob Fetzer of North Carolina, Wwho is managing the meet, is of the opinion that the games bring — |forth some new records. The prelimi- | naties and finals of the meet will all be run off Saturday night. D NIVERSITY OF MARYLAND bas- ket ball team leaves this afternoon at 4:45 o'clock for Atlanta. The | O1d Liners are scheduled to meet Louisi- ana State University in their first game 3|0f the basket ball tournament at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. If the; Louisiana State, on Saturday play the winner of tomorrow’s defeat. will North ent said, “We put out the tournament.” Once Maryland met in what was generally conceded strongest team in the South, and won, but then dropped its second game to what probably was the weakest five that went to Atlanta that year, , Just what Maryland’s chances are this year, is a matter of conjecture’ only. To win through a tournament as grueling as the one at Atlanta re- quires some luck as well as a lot of In part of a game, because once it is out. However, many of those that have watched Maryland think its chances are better than in any previous year, largely because it has proved to be the most consistent team Maryland has ever had. Maryland wound up its home schedule last night with its second victory over Johns Hopkins, this time by 31 to 22, which almost duplicated its score against the same team in January. Maryland, after plugging along for some time, jumped out in front and flzglahed‘tbe half with an advantage of. to 14. With_six minutes to. go, the Old. Liners held a 31-to-14 edge. Then & second string was sent in - Hopkins got 8 points before the o gun barked. 3 Ronkin, Berger, Chalmers, Norrls and May divided the scoring pretty evenly among themselves. Line-ups: Maryland (31). GF.P Chalmers, f.. Steiber, Hopkins ¢ G. Husesoeuy . umonesaf, wl onoronouon; | = 2] susasusva? gas at outset and soon ran into a 15-to-3 After that it was just a question as the size of the score. 3 It was Loyola’s fourteenth straigh in_an unbeaten season to date. Line-ups: Loyola College (54). G.F.Pt3. Eastern thus far is the only'Jocal | Nowal quintet entered. Junior varsity won, 19 to 16, over Central tossers, in & St. Johf's Leaj game yesterday.