Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1931, Page 32

(o] SPOR | ~HE EVENING STAR, W ASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1931 SPORTS. Western Conference Prepares to Resist North- Central Control of Athletics DOWN THE LINE WANTS AUTONOMY INSPORTS AFFAIRS Big Ten Plans to Support Northwestern in Battle With College Body. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. HICAGO, March 24—The Western Conference has placed itself in a position to resist any effort of the North Central Association of Col- leges and Secondary Schools to participate, by investigation cr disciplinary measures, in the conduct of Big Ten athletics. Definite action by the Western Con- ference will be taken April 18, wh°n the presidents and faculty representatives of its schools meet in Chicago to con- sider the situation brought about by Northwestern University's refusal to permit North Central investigators to complete their investigation at the Evanston institution. The dispute between the North Cen- tral and Western Conference was brought to a focal point Thursday when the association’s Board of Review re- ported: “That Northwestern has sub- mitted no report and its accrediting is referred back to the Board of Review with power to act.” Which means that for the time being Northwestern's standing in the Nortn Central Associ- ation is In status quo, States Big Ten Stand. In an address before the North Cens tral, Walter Dill Scott,. pres.dent of Northweslern, defended the ‘action of his university and, in part, said: “Official investigators of the North Central Association have stated in sub- stance that the Intercollegiate Confer- ence has failed and that the North Cen- tral Assoclation was taking over the work previously done by the Intercol- legiate Conference. Several members of the North Ceniral, who also are mem- bers of the Intercollegiate Conference, have stated that in their opinion this new policy of the North Central Asso- ciation is a subtle attempt to disrupt the conference and place the control of all intercolieg.ate ataletics in the hands of the North Cen.ral. “This they regard as an attempt to bring the control of intercoilegiate ath- letics into the hands of those who are not interested in raising the standards of intercollegiate athletics, but who de- sire to see them abolished. “At the present time the conference has a better organization for legisla- tion, administraticn, inspection, adjudi- cation and control of its 10 institutions than has the North Central. We, as an association are justified in placing our faith in the future dependability of a conference with such a distinguished career, “Several of the conference universi- tles feel that it is undesirable to be in- spected by individuals unfamiliar with local on which there is not a majority in di- rect contact with athletics at the con- ference universities. This is particular); true if that board has power to in- flict punishment.” E. C. Elliott, president of Purdue, of- fered an_ame; it to the resolution the. Executive Committee of Basket Tourney Pairings, Results ‘TONIGHT'S S8CHEDULE. 7 o'clock, north court—Jewish Community Center vs. Eagles Ath- letic Club, girls’ senior class (semi- final round). 7 o'clock, south court—Shipleys vs. Olmsted Grill-Hawkins Motor winner, 130-pound class (quarter- final round). 8 o'clock, main court—Bliss Elec- trical School vs. Potomac Boat Club Scholastics, unlimited class (second round). 9 o'clock, main court—United Type- writer Co. vs. Quantico Marines, un= limited class (quarier-final round). 10 o'clock, main court—St. Mar- tin's vs. Colonlals, 145-pound class (quarter-final round). WEDNESDAY NIGHT. T o'clock, morth court—Stuarts vs. Boys' Club Optimists, 100-pound (finals). 7 o'clook, south court—Jewish Community Center vs. St. John's, 130-pound (semi-finals). 8 o'clock, main court—Montrose vs. Wallace Memorial, 145-pound (quarter-finals). 9 o'clock, main court—Capital Awning Aces vs. Mount Vernon, un- limited (quarter-finals). 10 o'clock, main court—Clovers vs. Calvary M. E., unlimited (quarter- finals). LAST NIGHT’S GAMES. 130-pound Division. Jewish Community Center, 28; Aztees, 20 (quarter-final round). Olmsted Grill, 44; Hawkins Mo~ tors, 11 (quarter-final round). Boys' Club Optimists, 36; North- ‘westerns, 15 (quarter-final round). 115-pound Division. Boys' Club Optimists, 36; Nye House, 14 (quarter-final round). Unlimited Division. Mount Vernon, 27; Red Stars, 23 (quarter-final round) Calvary M. E., 57; First Baptist, 27 (quarter-final round). MAYWOOD BOWLERS | GRAB ROSSLYN CASH| Clinch Pennant, Hold Team Game and Set Records, and Some Individual Marks. ‘With the season fast approaching its end, it looks as though Maywood bowlers have clinched the major R“rum of the laurels .3?1 ?‘fi 1‘:; the lyn Inde- pendent Duckp! gue. The Maywood team already has clinched the league trophy, and it also holds high team set of 1,820 and high game of 641. Joe Freschi has high av ‘with 113, with R. Spilman and C. Haverty close behind with 111. All three of these boys roll with Maywood. Froschi also has high individual game of - 160. George Clark's 407 set looks like the money in this division. M Ba: Kirby's Service assoclation for consultation with | Blekey Big Ten representatives.” Action in Abeyance. ‘This was voted down after E. E. Rall, president of North Central Col- lege, had objected on the ds that no single conference should be given special 3 orthwestern then was given an op) ity to present the nmmnl the Associa- then will hold a joint meeting, in which an amicable agree- ?’ ment will be reached. But that agree- ment will guarantee the Western Con- ference autonomy with regard to the conduct of its own athletic affairs. FORT WASHINGTON’S BOXERS ARE BEATEN |, Two Lose and One Is Forced to Default in 3d Corps Area Title Meet. BALTIMORE, Md., March 24.—Ira . Jones, 118-pound boxer, and H. Schaszberger, 126-pounder of the Wash- ington Barracks, lost their matches in the first annual 3d Corps Area ring championships here last night. Roy A. Green, also of Washington Barracks, was forced to d-fault as the result of a fractured jaw received while winning his preliminary bout last Wed- nesday night. Fort Howard with 20 points was the winner, Fort Washington scored 2 points. Summaries: 112-pound _ class—Willlam MeShea (Fort Bustia) defeated C. P. Murphy (Fort How- ar 11§-pound class—J. J. Stewart (Port How- ard) knocked out H. T, g 126-pound class—R. A. Belstel (Port How- ard) defested R. R. Landis (Carlisle Bar- Tacks) 135-pound_elass—Irving Johnson Carlisle Barracks) defeated Prank Koresdosk (Fort 7 147-pound _class—Robert Goolsbee (Fort Howard) ~defested A. Matricion (Carlisle Barracks), extra round. 160-pound _class—Robert W. Smith (Oa lisle Barracks) defeated Robert J. Skrinar (Langley Pield). 7 J. Gray (Fortress defeated William Vermiilion (Fort weight elass—Raymond Tumoli (Fort Eustis) defeated Mel Bhepperd (Camp Hola- rdl. 320 REPORT TO ROCKNE Notre Dame Squad to Be Cut to 100 Soon, Coach Says. SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 24 (#).— Three hundred and twenty foot ball candidates, enough for a half-dozen full sized squads—and they all belong to| Notre Dame. Coach Knute Rockne had his 1031 material out for Spring training for the first time yesterday and the practice :;Lron was jammed with men seeking jobs. than J d he planned to whittle the array down to about 100 men exclusive of en. He added practice would be lighter than usual this Spring, as he favors the off-season drill only as a means of keeping the th- in good shape and out of mis- < orris & Young BAUSERMAN MOTOR. s 1 - 144 30.| 1926, FAST FIVES CLASH INA.A. U. TOURNEY Quarter, Semi-Final Games on Tonight—Mount Vernon Ousts Red Stars. OWN to the quarter and semi- finals in most divisions, 10 of the remaining District A. A. U. basket ball tournament con- tenders tonight will make the fur fly in the Tech High School zymnuium,‘ A quarter-final game between United Typewriter Grays and Quantico Ma-} rines generally is looked upon as the| feature, but none of the five games is & standout, any being likely to steal the show. Grays and Marines are rangy, speedy uintets, each led by & crack center, the rays having Bob Freeman and the Leathernecks Capt. Bob Resio. Olmstead Grill plays in the 130-pound class for the second successive night, opposing the crack little Shipley tos- sers, while the other trio of contests bring together J. C. C. and Eagles in a senlor girls’ game; Bliss Electrical School and Potomac Boat Club Scho- lastics in an unlimited clash, and the Bt. Martin’s and Colonials in a 145- pound battle. EATEN at last, after being counted out at the start, Red Stars, who fell before Mount Vernon, 23 to 27, last night in the unlimited class, never- theless go down as the prize ‘“dark horse” of the tournament After spotting the church five to & 15-t0-3 lead at half time, Red Stars rallied in championship style to bring the score as close as 20 to 19, only to be nosed out. J. C. C. 130-pounders clearly showed | they are to be reckoned a powerful con- | tender for the title in their class by | upsetting the strong Aaztecs, 28 to 20. Calvary M. E., in the unlimited class, was given little opposition by First | Baptist, winning 57 to 27. Bearing the standard of the Boys' Club, the 130 and 115 pound Optimists routed respective opponents, the former five winning, 36 to 15, over, Northwestern and the little fellows eliminating Nye House, 36 to 14. Then Olmsted Grill rounded out the | evening with a 44-to-11 win over | Hawkins Motors. ke POINT OF LAW HALTS DEMPSEY-WILLS SUIT By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, March 24—A point of law had to be threshed out today be- fore the jury could listen in on the Chicago_Coleseum Club’s $500,000 suit against Jack Dempsey for alleged breach of ccntract, for a championship fight with Harry Wills, when the former was champion. ‘The jury was selected at the opening session yesterday in Circuit Judge H. 8. Pomeroy’s Court, but the opening argu- ment by Attorney John Rosen for the plaintiff, was interrupted when he sald he would attempt to show that the former bheavyweight champion of the world was in contempt of a Marion County, Ind., Superior Court when he fought Gene Tunney at Philadelphia in of fighting Wills for the Coliseum Club. ‘The Indiana Court had issued an in- junction restraining Dempsey from fighting any one but Wills. Counsel for Dempsey protested the point was irrevelent, and the jury was dismissed while the question was argued. It grew Jate and Judge Pomeroy ad- journed court until this morning, when the argument was to be resumed, with the jury still out of the court room. Dempsey had nothing to say in the case, but was kept busy greeting friends and admirers. — NAVY HOLDS RECORD FOR BOXING CHAMPS ANNAPOLIS, March 24—In addi- tion to winning the champlonship for the year at the final of the Intercol- legiate Boxing Assoclation Saturday, the Naval Academy established the record of the number of champions in the eight years of the existence of that Up to the last tournament the Naval Academy lvania State had each supplied 17 champions, but the Navy forged ahead when it secured two winners to State's one. Herbert Fulmer, 135 pounds, and Duke Crinkley, unlimited weight, were the Navy champions, while Al Lewis won in the 145-pound class for State. ‘The Navy and Penn State will not meet next year, after a series of annual meetings covering a dozen years. Both institutions, however, are anxious that the series 1 be resumed. Penn State wished the series to continue on a_home-and-home basis, but the Navy, allowed but one trip away each seaso did not care to limit itself in this way. ‘The Navy schedule for next year will consist of six dual matches. It has not yet been determined whether {he acad- emy will continue in the Intercollegiate Boxing Assoclation, of which it is charter member, Golf Rule Columbia Pro HAT is the penalty for striking the water with your club if you are play- ing a golf ball immersed in water from a water hazard? Both Pred McLeod and J. Monro Hunter, the latter the Indian Spring pro, claim that the same penalty is in- curred as in striking the sand in a bunker with the club—namely, one stroke. That is a point, according to McLeod, that is not covered in the rules. “I think the same penajty should be incurred in a water hazard as in a sand trap,” sald Preddle, who knows quite a little about playing these water shots, where light re fraction, depth of water and other lbt:lllulntchwmcphmdm Around Columbia they still talk about a shot Preddie T the wter ookt e Authorized Service Leece-Neville, Dyneto, Westinghouse, Starters & _BRAKES ADJUSTED Generator Repairs Thinks Proper Does Not Worry Him as He Pitches From Pond. curtains, for Hurley was on the n from the tee, and if Freddie g:ede dropped behind the hazard he would almost certainly have lost. Instead, he waded down into the water, pitched the ball out past the hole and the backspin brought it back into the cup for a winning 2. He won the next two holes to win the match. Oil Filter Replacements L.' S. Jullien, Inc. HAWKINS MOTORS Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street Good Used Cars Authorized @ Deaters MILLER-DUDLEY CO. North 1583-4 1716 148 8. N.W. 1529 14th St. N.W, Dec. 3320 By V. O Some OQutlines of Sport. NTEDCOLLEGIATE foot ball, which started only some 60 years ago in a friendly meet between Princeton and Rutgers University seems to have grown into a national problem. It is the youngest of Ameri- can sports, but the money that is spent on intercollegiate foot ball overshadows all of the million-dollar gates drawn by Tex Rickard's prizefights and all of the expenditures on the national pastime, base ball. Intercollegiate foot ball and its hold on the popular interests has grown to such an extent that it not only has be- come of much better concern to the educators of the nation, but it is about to become a matter for congressional invesigation. More than one solon an- noyed the last Congress with a demand that the foot ball relations of the two service academies, West Point and An- napolis, be investigated. The biggest sports crowd ever as- sembled in the United States gathered to see a foot ball game and an un- important one at that. In the same inclosure, where the biggest ‘flfl'hl crowd was gathered, in Soldier Field, Chicago, a still bigger crowd assembled to see Navy play Notre Dame, when both teams were out of all calculations in connection with the mystical intercol- legiate foot ball championship, The history of American intercol- legiate foot ball might be divided into three periods, the Camp Period, the Roekne Period and the Period of Gen- eral Consternation, which is the pres- ent. Whether or not the consternation is justified is still being argued and the argument will continue. The games started as modestly as the American game of base ball. A committee of Rutgers students invited Princeton to organize a foot ball teams and to bring the team to Rutgers to play. The invitation was accepted and the Princeton students and the faculty, including the president, took the train ride to Rutgers to see the sport. 'T was an entirely friendly gathering. There was no organized cheering and there were no stands. The members of the Rutgers faculty entertained the members of the Princeton faculty. The students lunched together. The foot ball players, who had no training table, ate together. After lunch the members of the rival foot ball teams strolled through the town of New Brunswick and they shot some friendly games of pool. ‘There was no advance ballyhoo and no long articles experting the chances of the rival teams. There was a slim notic®in some of the New Jersey news- papers announcing that foot ball teams from Princeton and Rutgers would meet that afternoon. Maybe & stray old grad or two from both the universities might have seen the game. The townspeople were not interested. If they happened to be passing that part of the campus they said, “It is only the students amus- ing themselves—they are always amus- ing themselves,” and let it go at that. In the absence of a grandstand the spectators from the rival universities perched on the fence around the im- provised foot ball field. It is recorded that during the game the fence became overcrowded, with the result that it collapsed and the students and the faculty members squatted on the grass in mixed groups. Of course, there were no gate receipts. Who, in those days, would pay to see a lot of students amus- themselves? It is history that Rutgers won the first game of American intercollegiate foot ball. And that was the start of the “overemphasis. AT spontaneous Rutgers-Princeton idea grew. In a few years there were intercollegiate foot ball all over the East. The game developed THE VAST B\ McGEEHAN into something that wag distinctly na- tional in contrast to the English rugby and the international and more primi- tive game of soccer. ‘That fine gentleman and sportsman, ‘Walter Camp, Who was a great player in the early days of American foot ball at Yale, had much to do with the mold- ing of the American game into a sport that was distinctive. He earned the title of “Father of American Foot Ball.” It was a great and glorious game, the oldtimers will tell you, and it took hardy athletes to play it. The general public looked upon it first with curiosity and then with interest. The crowds at the intercollegiate foot ball games be- came bigger and bigger. After a while old grads would return to see the foot ball games and to criticize the younger players and to make comparisons be- tween the newer foot ball and the foot ball of their time, to the disparage- ment of the younger players. Perhaps, if they had barred the old grads from the earlier games, a great many of the problems and the perplex- ities that have risen in connection with foot ball of today might have been forestalled. For it is my theory that the major part of the “evils” decided in connection with the game of tcday are tracable to the alumni, which I will attempt to demonstrate later. The game grew steadily through the days of the close formations and through the development of the foot ball which the modern coaches call contemptuously “bovine foot ball. FOOT ball teams began to expand their schedules and to travel great- er distances while they were mak- ing “traditional rivals.” I think that the foreruriner of Knute Rockne’s Ramblers, the Notre Dame team, was an early team of Carlisle Indians, which toured from coast to coast, playing all cf the colleges that would play and, I believe, beating them all. At first the attitude of newspapers was tolerantly humorous toward this peculiarly collegiate sport. Some of you can remember the old comic weeklies where the foot ball player was pictured with the peculiar foot ball haircut, long | N. bangs and the hair parted in the mid- | land. dle. Today no newspaper dares treat this contentlous game in that manner. The prominent foot ball player of today is pictured as a sort of young demigod L in a helmet. As a matter of fact, he is of the same age and probably about of the same disposition as the student who wore the long foot ball bangs and played the game mainly because he liked it. But now he is hedged around with all | sorts of seriousness. He has a training table and he has it pounded into him that winning the foot ball games is quite as serious as winning world wars. To illustrate the contrast in the point of view, there is a legend concerning a game that took place at Rutgers, where this “overemphasized” sport be- gan in a spirit of play, where it was Just a friendly gathering. Later on this very fleld they say that an undergrad- uate of Rutgers, sitting on the side lines with a broken leg, struggled to get back, crying, “I'd die for dear old Rutgers.” Hoya Nine‘()pens Campaign Today Georgetown University’s base ball 2 n and Les also at Lexing- ton was postponed because of ground conditions. This contest will be played tomorrow. &orreto'n University will its home season Saturday, meeting Dartmouth. MAJORITY DEMANDS 4 TILTS LISTED IN DIAMOND LOOP}-x V. P. 1. and Maryland to Open Tri-State Collegiate Se- ries Saturday. By the Associated Press. UNIVERSITY, Va, March 24.—Play in the Tri-State Intercollegiate Base Ball League begins for the season of 1931 next Saturday when Maryland opens against Virginia Polytechnic In- stitute at Blacksburg. There will be 40 games played d the series, which ends May 20 wi North Carolina opposing North Carolina State in Raleigh. Each of the seven members of the league play 12 games with other or- ganization members, except Virginia Military Institute and Washington and Lee. e Cadets and the Generals do not play each other, which cuts their total down. Maryland swings through Vi goes down for two games against e gla, not a league member, and comes back by way of North Carolina. On this opening trip the Old Liners play every rival in the group except the Virginia Cavalers. ‘The revised schedule follows: March 28—Maryland at V. P. T. March 30—Maryland st Wai Lee. March 31—Maryland at V. M. L. ton e Al April !ll&v April e at Vir Maryland, t_Maryland, 1.; North Caro- e, April 14— na at V. M. T April 15 ne at V. P. 1. i117—V. P. I at N. C. Siate. P 1" at North Carolij April 21—Virginia st Maryland; Wa ton and Lee at V. P. I, et st Virginia; V. ton and Lee M. 1 st at Mary- April 25—V. 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