Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1931, Page 48

SPORTS. Prmceton Decides to Hold Spring Foot Ball Practice CHANGES TS MIND ABOUT SUCHDRILLS Once Was Strongly Against * 1dea—Squad Will Take Field Next Week. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, March :n' N (CPA).—Princeton will hold Spring foot ball prac- | tice. This is news. Prince- ton was ope of the important apostles of no Spring practice. This policy, which 1is observed by some institutions, is associated | with the professor-coach, no - training table and other moral gadgets devised to mitigate the" alleged evil of foot ball overem- phasis. Princeton had no Spring practice last year. The foot ball men who were not engaged in other sports did some per- | functory work; at least some of lhemv did. The rest roved around in the| warm sunlight and had a nice tme | when their lessons were learned. But( there was nothing intensive in the v&ny of practice. In thinking the matter over, it m\y‘ have occurred to the new coach, Al Wittmer, that the team did not play as a unit until the very last game of the season. The lack of S practice conceivably was in part responsible for this. In any case, however, it is not likely he would have urged a Spring turn-out had it not been for the mcl that Yale, where the elimination of spfiu pncuee has never been officially called out her men as usual last mk for serious work. 8o next week out will come the Tigers, the usual care being taken not to draft foot ball players from other sports in which the may be participating. Princeton over the double wing back offense with such Vvariatons as ln used by OBIntle under the direc- t.lnnolhndyxerr n & large measure used it with excellent results | P Stuhldreher, coacl ys that in his experience the calling out of lootbfllmmltmuumeo{mr if it served no other purpose, keeps boys off street corners and out uf nll sorts of mischief to which the fancy of youth twurns when it is idle. There may be a lot in what Harry says. RICE BEST BOWLER IN INSURANCE LOOP Averages Better Than 110 to Take Season's Honors—Peoples Team in Front. High for the 1930-31 bowling season in the ince Duckpin lulue uuubyme-,wmmm “under the ‘wire” with a pace of 110-39. Spicknall lnd Hare put up a hot bat- tle for up, Spicknall by a 107-39 average. 17 pins, ha p mmmapammm No. 32, tying and lost. SEASON RECORDS. s High _Individual Oames — Cherry, 169 ’H‘ER'mmmm Set—8picknall-Cherry, 381 e dividunl Averages__Rice, 110-20; e '"fi‘:ifi' oo meikee AW ee: Geon — Inter-Leagte. Acacia Reds, 382; YOUHD & SIMON. 5‘ m 3 }Xl comnnn cuuufl'r | the celebrated London i heatwood . angies ... it i, THE EVENING DOWN THE LINE Y W. 0. McGEEHAN. N this more or less cursory review of fistiana Americana I am consider- ing it in three divisions—Afirst, the romantic, or Sullivanic, period; sec- ond, the rise to the million-dollar gates; third, the decline into the status of & racket where the wealth accumulated | and the caulifiower decayed. | American prize fighting began with | the discovery of John Lawrence Sulli- van, the Boston strong boy. Just how far it has descended can be gathered by considering Jimmy Maloney, the Boston fat boy, upon whose pudgy shoulders | the mantle of Sullivan has descended 0 | far as Boston is concerned, or Jack Sharkey, the hysterical Lithuanian- American, who is held by the New York State Boxing Commission to be the “de- fending he-wwelxht chnmplnn of the world,” whatever that may be. Before John L. Sullivan took his stand in the hall at Boston and announced, ‘I can lick any man in the world,” prize hting was a fugitive sport and alto- | gether beyond the pale. It descended, J of course, from Broughton, who wrote | ize ring rules. Among those who heard John L. Sulli- | van announce most casually that he could lick any man in the world was William A. Muldoon, and Mr. Muldoon believed him. 'OHN L. SULLIVAN proceeded to| make what sounded to be a rather ' empty boast very good indeed. He did boys would call & Bolling drunk or gravely sober, he lick every man in the world who op- posed him. There are those who always will maintain that John L. Sullh never really was entitled to the heavy- weight championship of his day and generation because he never would meet ter Jackson. But that is muck-rak- ing history, and likely to start a fight. Some modérn biographers have been rathe - hard on George Washington, but nobody yet has denied authenticity of John L. Sullivan’s claim to the heavy- weight champlonship. ‘With the advent of Sullivan came the uplift of prize fighting. John L. Sulli- van became a prominent figure in the news of the day. When he visited Eng- land he was received by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, afterward Edward VII, and John L. Sullivan was gracious enough to treat the prince as an equal. Mll was in Sullivan's time that the late arqui After that prizefighting wi in many of the states. It was no longer ry to hold them in isolated on barges or s-cret places wher> iffs or the militla could not run !hem down, But there still remained a certain ele- ment of romance and glamour to the ancient game. Sullivan was what th “colorful figure. Te- mained a big figure. His appearance in & city at the peak of his glory was the signal for a riot, the r:moval of the horses from the carriage of the champlon and the dragging of the royal STAR, WASHINGTON, D.. O, FRIDAY,: M ARCH 20, 1931. vehicle through the streets by the ad- miring populace. It was almost a national tragedy when th: great John L. Sullivan, the bloated wreck of the great gladiator, was first cut into ribbons and finally knocked out by James J. Corbett, a slim and trim young bank clerk of Cali- fornia. Corbett was everything that D | they said they wanted in a heavyweight chlm?lon He was mast:r of the art of self - defense, by which name the jocular ones still call the prizefight racket, but they did not like him any more than they liked the master box-r, Gene Tunney, who subsequently beat | Jack Dempsey, considered the only ‘llezmmlw sucosssor of John L. Sul- van, T is a significant commentary that the iggest purse for which John L. Sulltvan fou[ht ‘was the one he lost at New Or a paltry $25.000—a sum that some 0( the ll'kr-dly fighters would pick up for admissions to their training camps. Incidentally, John L. Sullivan lost at New Orleans a side b-t of $10,000, yet the newspapers of the period were complaining about the huge sums that were paid to bruisers. The new chempion, Jam:s J. Corbett, defended his title unsuccessfully at Car- son City, Nev. By this time the sports pages were expanding and the little Nevada city was filled with ~xperts and correspondents. I believe that it was here that the business of sports “ghost writing” started. Bob Davis, the columnist, initiated it by ghost writing daily articles for Pitzsimmons. On this account alone Mr. Davis has much to inswer for. In the meantime, the prizefight game was developing in the other classes. It| produced such glamorous figures as Jack Dempsey (the Nonpareil), George | Dixon, Joe Gans, Stanley Ketchel, Sam | Langford (th. Boston Tar Baby), Joe Wolcott (the Barbadoes Demon), Bat- tling Nelson, Al Wolgast and a host of lesser gladiators who are still remem- bered \flh affection. All through this development it re- tained much of its glamour. Sometimes the fights were held in strange and far places, but always there were | few thousand ready to travel to the N Pole or to the African ]un[les nnm- than to miss a big y the remnants of this fal thul following hardly would take a taxicab ride to se> some of the over-ballyhooed prize- fights of the present day. AMES J. JEFFRIES, who first ap=| rtner for | peared as a Ssparring James J. Corbett at Carson City | and was called “the human punching bag.” finally developed into a fighter. He beat the 8ging Rob:rt Pitzsimmons and became heavyweight champion of the world. And there the fight game began to sag. The interest could not be sustained because there was nobody ;I:'e to stand up before James J. Jef- ries. ‘The new champion was forced to take to the stage to cash on the title, and that bored him. Finally he b'came 8o disgusted that he announced his retire- ment and tossed the title away to be fought for by the lesser gladiators. Something like that happentd to the fight game when years later Gene Tun- ney announced that he was through forever with the game and meant it. Out of the mass of small fry of the Jeffries period emerged a French- Canadian, named Noah Brusso, whose ring name was Tommy Burns. He was acknowledged champion after beating some of the lcsser heavyweights. Then came the Burns-Johnson fight in Aus- tralia, and Jack Johnson, a Negro from the Galveston docks, came into the pos- title that was once John e very low ebb of the fight me for that pcriod. The little fel- ows attracted lll of the interest that was left in_the prize ring. c.nmmn was the only state in which the long fights were permitted, and the ‘West Coast becams the center of Fistiana of '.he prl!fl‘hl racket. time the pi for pris:fig] since the !ulllvln ptrlnd never amounted to enough to make one of the latter-day gladiators even interested. T0 DISEUSS BASKET BALL National Assoclation Meeting Listed in New York March 28-20. NEW YORK, March 20 (#).—Mem- bers of the National Association of Basket Ball Coaches will meet here March 28 and 20 for the fifth annuai clinic on the rules and regulations of the game. ‘The speakers will include Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Kansas U, coach, who will speak on “Stratified Transitional Zone Defense.” Other papers will be offered by Dr. , Pittsburgh, and H!d H. C. Carl Young of Blooml n, Middle West official. J. C. 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