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‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Foening Star. \ WASHINGTON, ¥ i WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 1931. PAGE D-—1 Death of Knute Rockne Leaves a Great Gap in Collegiate Athletic Ranks GRID COACH VICTIM OF PLANE DISASTER Had Risen From Immigrant! Boy to Supreme Place in Sports Realm. By the Associated Press. | HICAGO, April 1.—The ca- reer of a Norwegian immi- | grant boy, a career that reached heroic heigths, has | ended. Knute Rockne is dead. | The man whose keen mind and | matchless leadership made Notre | Dame, “that little college in the Middle West,” the greatest power in intercollegiate foot ball, passed on yesterday as he had lived, in action. An airplane disaster in Kansas claimed his life, but can- not quench the memory of his ac- complishments. Rockne was born in Voss, a Nor- wegian village, March 4, 1888, the son | of My. and Mrs, Lewis Rockne. The | first four years of his life were spent in | Norway; then his father, a carriage maker, brought one of his products to the World Fair at Chicago in 1893.| His exhibit won a medal, and he de- | cided to make Chicago h's home, and | gent for his family, which arrived two months later. | The eider Rockne was able to put | ung Knute through grammar school, | Tut o was necessary for the future wizard of foot ball and psychology to earn his way through high school and college. Base Ball First Love, ‘While he was a youngster in the Logan Square district, Rockne was more interested in athletics than anything else, but concentrated on base ball. It was not unfil he attended Northwest Divisién High that he became interested in foot ball and track. His famous scarred nose was caused by & blow from a base ball bat during a kid game. He was graduated from high school 1n 1907, but did not reach Notre Dame until 1911 for the simple reason that he didn't have enough money to go to col- lege. 'He was determined, however, that he would attend the University of Tllinois, and it was because two close friends had decided on Notre Dame that he changed his plans. During the four years following his graduation from high school he worked at varfous jobs, but most of the time was spent in the employ of the post- office. He also worked on lake steamers and did odd jobs, and after a raise of 50 cents a week at the postoffice failed to satisfy him, he borrowed $45 and went to Notre Dame. | harmon S’\poryts Leaders By the Associated Press. EW YORK, April 1.—Tribut's to the memory of Knute Rockne today painted the portrait of a personality and a friend in y with his place in the realm of collegiate sports as the foremost foot ball coaching genius. Other foot ball coaches did not stress his admitt:d ability in the game as much as they 'did his ideals and the heritage of true sportsmanship which he_left. Don_Miller, backfield coach at Ohm‘ State University, and ons of the famous | four horsemen of 1924, sounded the | Reynot> of the estimate of -Rockne voiced by s~ores after word of his death in an airplane accident was reccived. “He was a lovable character whose beautfiul personality made him legions of friends,” Mi'kr said. o He was the idol of millions who had never seen him. His death was taken as a personal loss not only by his friends and asso- clates but by thousands who knew him only as a moulder of foot ball teams that came, saw and conquered. ‘That foot ball had lost its dominating figure was s:condary to the fact that his boys had lost an intimate and be- loved friend. They took,all their trou- bles to him, even their love affairs. Perhaps Elmer Layden, one expressed the way Notre Dame trained ayers felt: “I can't explain the bond betwee! the great man and his players,” saf Layden, “as family troubles, foot ball troubles and class room. troubles all were taken to Rock, and somehow all became a little lighter after he sized up the situation and gave us his help. Knute Rockne. HE sudden, tragic death of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's great foot ball coach, comes as one ol the | greatest shocks the world of sport has ever known. Here was not only & rare genius on the foot ball field but & personality that for years had | caught and held the attention of n.il-| lions. Knute Rockne could have been an outstanding figure in any career or pro- fession he might have adopted. He had brains, ability, character and the vital qualities of leadership. He stuck to foot ball because that was the game he loved and because it belonged to the type of | younger men who were his kind Foot ball is a game that demands Not much was heard of Knute Rockne | as an athlete until one amazing after- | noon in 1913 on.the plains of West Point. = The Irish had gone there to| tackle one of Army's strongest elevens | —and to take a handsome beating it was expected. | But Rockne tore down the fleld all afternoon under forward passes flung by Charles E. “Gus” Dorais, Notre Dame’s. quarterback then, and coach at the University of Detroit now. The re- sult was a staggering 33 to 13 triumph | for Notre Dame, and they no loi called it “that little college in the dle West. Becomes Chemistry Teacher. Roem:‘phyad under Coach Jess Har- and after his graduation from Notre , returned to the university as as- sistant professor of chemistry, a branch in which he excelled to the point of almost deciding to make it his life ‘work, and to assist Harper. Harper resigned after the 1917 sea- gon, and urged Notre Dame to make Rockne his successor. Rock was con= sidered 00 young, but Harper prevailed and be was given the job. The war| year—1918—saw Rockne’s team win three games, lost two and tie one. ‘The next year he became the Rockne who ~dominated foot ball from then until his death yesterday. In 1919 and 1920, with the immortal George Gipp carrying the ball and kicking it, Notre Dame did not lose a game. me- sons followed, but not until 1924 did he produce his first gridiron master- plece—the “Four Horsemen” who raced over 10 opponents behind the charges of the “Seven Mules.” Rockne's teams dropped a game or two & season until 1928 when his worst season cem>. Notre Dame dropped four “games. But one year later Rockne’s raiders were again the talk of gridirondom—and on tne strength of Rock's personality and genius. He became criticaily ul early in the 1929 season, an infeciion in the blood stream of his right leg sending him to his bed. Tom Lieb took active | cha.ge, but it was Rockne's teaching that sent a great t:am through a sui- | cide schedule of nine games without a | defeat. That was considered the ultimate—it | might never again be accomplished, 50 | Rockne came right back las. Fall, im- proved in health and brilliant as ever, | o fashion his greatest machine; a team that slashea through 10 foemen of major caliber, closng with an | astonisning ons-sided triumph over Southern California Rockne was not simply a foot ball coach. He was an exucmely able chemist, and his other interes.s were enough for a half dozen m:n. His wit made him in demand as a writer, | atter-dinner speaker and radio speaker. | He did his own writing and made his | speeches ext:mporaneously. Recently he became director of sales promotion for the Studebaker Corpora- tion, and lost his life while on the way to_California to make motion pictures. He 1s survived by his widow and four | children, his mother and three slsuu,‘ Fistic Battles By the Associated Press BOSTON.—King Levinsky, Chicago, ou.pointed Con O'Kelly, Ireland (10). NEW YORK.—Paul Berlenbach, New | York, knocked out Six-fingered Eddie | Clark, New York (3). DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Sammy Mandell, Rockford, Ill., outpointed Jose Estrada, Mexico City (10). ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Farmer Joe Cooper, Terre Haute, Ind., knocked out Y7mm¢ Russell, Palmetto Beach, Fla. . INDIANAPOLIS.—Del Fontaine, Win- nipeg, outpointed Charley Arthurs, New York (10). LOS ANGELES.—Billy ‘Townsend, Vancouver, British Columbia, outpoint- ed Joe Glick, Brooklyn (10). Polo Results Intercollegiate Finals. Harvard, 9; Pennsylvania Military, 'h 9; Princeton, 7. | provide the openings and the interfer- spirit and action, and Knute Rockne | had these elements to a rare degree. He knew foot ball and he knew how to teach it, having shown this teaching ability as a chemistry professor ai Notre Dame before he took up foot ba'l coach- | ing. Beyond this he had the knack of | appealing to the student in the right | the knack of holding inter~st and | attention. And more than all, he had the imagination that belongs to genius. And he had the ability to trancfer a lot of his imagination to his team. His Path to Success. BPENT most of the afternoon and evening with Knute on_one of his trips east. We were discussing then his main fundamentals of attack. o successful attack in this modern l?m."hanldl.hn“mmbebued rgely upon fine blocking and-the ele- ment of win throu . No team can power and, after all, | that is no way to try-for a victory in| a game that can find such able use for | brains. I have used the shift because it helped along the lines of misdirec- | ; tion—of threatening one spot and then striking at another. But back of it all you must have the blockers who can | ence. | “At Notre Dame we talk little about | ball carriers. We talk about the block- ers, the men who clear the way. The greates in the world couldn't make any ground without good block- ing. An ordinary back can get the dis- tance when you epen the road. should say that blocking and misdi- rection of attack, plus speed, are the three strongest qualities in my offense.” “All that,” I suggested, “plus a rare foot ball spirit for which you have been | largely responsible.” Another Factor. | AVING the material developed and the plays at hand, Knute under- stood that the next step was to | build ughth‘ quarterback who could handle attack. Few will know how patiently, how hard and how long he worked with such stars as Harry Stuhl- dreher and Frank Carideo, two of his best leaders. They meant more to him than half Leadiniz Events Pay High Tribute to Rockne of Rockne's famous “four horsemen,” best | THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE | with his ideas that under fire they Everywhere Why, if we fell in love with a girl we'd go and talk the whole thing over with him.” And then there was Tom Lieb, who handled the team when Rockne was disabled by illness in 1929: “He was more than a teacher of foot ball#’ said Lieb. “He was a genius, but more than that he was father to all of us at Notre Dame.’ Glenn S. (Pop) Warner, Stanford's veteran coach, called Knute the “great- est figure in foot ball today—one man with no enemies,” and Gil Dobie of Cornell termed him ‘“‘udoubtedly the most cospicuous figure American foot ball ever has known." s “We at West Point,” said Maj. Philip B. Fleming, graduate manager of ath- letics, “mourn the loss of a man whose sterling qualities endeared him to all persons who had the privilege of knbw- ing him.” Willlam J. Bingham of Har- vard called him “one of the greatest geniuses of all time.” Speaking for the Western Confer- ence, Commissioner John L. Griffith said that ‘“others may think of him as one of the greatest foot ball coaches the game ever has produced; I will always think of him as one of the finest, best and truest friends a man ever possessed.” “Unquestionably the greatest of foot ball teachers,” sald Mal Stevens of Yale. “His delightful sense of humor, his quick sympathy for a fallen adver- | sary, his indomitable spirit are more | than a legend and will carry on as an | inspiration to all who love the game| of foot ball.” | And so the tributes poured in from | the West, the South, the East,’ the| Middle West —mourning the passing | of a sportsman and a gentleman, whose | foot ball genius lives in the teachings of ex-pupils from Yale in the East to St. Mary's in the West. a foot ball team. He has made it a| point to spend all possible time with his quarterbacks and to #o instill them could meet any situation that might | arrive. - Those who saw the last Notre Dame- Southern California battle will under- stand how Carideo’s fine generalship struck at such unexpected points that a big, powerful team was completely overwhelmed in the first few plays. You can get a faint glimpse from all this why Knute Rockne leaves a record that may never be surpassed, certainly on no gridiron of this generation. In handling his men he could be sharp and decisive, but a moment later he would be on hand with & funny line or a funny story that broke the tension of the moment and wiped away any chance for soreness. I asked him once what he considered the most important details of foot ball | success. His answer was this: “To be | mentally keyed up but to be physically relaxed.” | Rockne was one cf the best of all after-dinner story tellers. He had a| great list of anecdotes and incidents, all | from actual life, and no one knew bet- | ter how to put these stories across. | They were a part of his method of | teaching, for he found them.invaluable aids on the fleld when ‘staleness or weariness set in. OCENE'S Notre Dame teams were largely responsible for mumn, the vast nation-wide popularity of the game. His teams traveled from one ocean to another, from Chicago to Georgia, and they played before packed stadia at every stop. ‘This was not only because Notre Dame came with a winning team. It was also because Notre Dame came with | an interesting team to watch, a smooth, | graceful, rhythmic operation that| caught the fancy cf friend and foe ike. | 1931. by the North American | Newspaper Alliance.) (Copyright, ROCKNE MUCH MORE THAN A GRID COACH Leader, Scholar, Psychologist, He ‘Would Go Out of His Way to Aid Others. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. | NEW ORLEANS, April 1.—Death. in Knute Rockne, claimed one who got much out of life. Many see whatever they have accomplished in this world | gradually slip away beneath the grasp- ing fingers of age, but Rockne crashed | to sudden death at the very peak of his career. The years can steal nothing from him. There will be no anti- climax to his record in the book of | time. | Leader, scholar, psychologist, Knute Rockne was master of his game— | greatest of foot ball coaches, but that scarcely seems important now. The Of Rockne’s Life April 1 Knute OUTH BEND, Ind, (®).—High spots of Rockne's career: 1883—Born in Voss, Norway. 1893—Came with parents to Chicago. cago. 1907-1911 — Attended Northwest Division High School, Chicago. 1911—Borrowed $45 from friends and enrolled at- Notre Dame just so he could be with his first two “pale.” 1911-1913—Starred as end on Notre Dame's foot ball teams. Also starred in track and pole vaulting. 1318—Selected head foot ball coach at Notre Deme, succecding Jess Harper. Fisi year foot ball record—Won 3, lost 1, t ed 2; scoring 133 points to oppon-nts’ 39, 1919-1920—First gained attraction in foot ball world by leading Notre Dame's team through two years without defeat, scoring 626 points in 18 games to opponents’ 68. 1924—Gave to the foot ball world what was regarded as the greatest football machine of gridiron history —a team led by the famous “Four Horsemen.” captured’ 10 straight games. 1928—Rockne and Notre Deme ex- perienced their poorest foot ball sea- son since Rockne became coach, win- ning five and losing four games. 1929—Forced to bed for several | months by leg infection, hut gained | grexter fame 2s team r pped through to victory over 10 opponents. 1920—Came back with “Notre Deme’s great st teem.” a tsam Which capped its great undefsated march by astounding the foot ball world by crushing California. & 1931—Became superintendent in corpnna‘ou lldm:dm t. m“lflpl. out_cm’ which finally resulted in . « yesterday in an sirplane little Norwegian, who came to the | | grew to be one of the tallest figures | in the world of sport. the quickest minds, keenest wits, and | biggest hearts I ever knew. | You found no small meanness, no | | littleness of soul in Rockne. He was generous in word and act. Many & less successful coach will tell you what he owed to the big little man of Notre | Dame. No man ever was willing to go further out of his way to help some one to whom he owed nothing. No man was less likely to forget anything he considered a kindness or an obliga- tion—he combined & sharp tongue and mot.]u head with a naturally sympathetic nature. (Copyright. 1931. by the North American y Newspaper Alliance.) | || Training Games By the Assoclated Press. | Yesterday's Results. At San Francisco—Detroit (A), 9; Missions (P. C. L), 0. At Los Angeles—Pittsburgh (N.), 9; Chicago (N.), 5. Today's Games. At Bradenton, Fla.—8t. Louis (N.) vs. ndianapolis (A. A. At Macon, Gi rooklyn (N.) vs. Cincinnati (N.). A Asheville, N. C.—Phlladelphia (N.) vs. Asheville, At Los Angeles—Pittsburgh (N.) vs. Chicago (N.). At Birmingham, Ala.—St. Louis (A.) | vs. Birmingham. At Chattanooga, Tenn.—New York (A.) vs. Chattanooga (8. A.). At New Orleans—Cleveland (A.) vs. | New Orleans (8. A). At Nashville, Tenn.—Boston (A.) vs. Nashville (8. A). San Prancisco—Detroit (A.) vs. Sportdom Loses Great Leader DOMINANT FIGURE IN FOOT BALL KILLED IN CRASH. KNUTE ROCKNE. Notre Dame Head Saw Rockne Grow BY REV. President of Notre S Dame University. OUTH BEND, Ind, April 1.— I knew Knute Rockne inti- mately for the past 20 years. When I came to Notre Dame, a newly-ordained priest, in 1910, and was assigned to €orby Hal as a prefect, Rockne was liv- ing in that dormitory. He was one of the shyest in the hall. He was slight of figure in those days and nobody could have predicted for ‘him his own great personal suc- cess as a foot ball player. Indeed, he was far better known as a keen student of chemistry. Upon his graduation from Notre Dame in 1914, he was offered and accepted instructorship in_the De- partment of Chemistry. But even in those days the versatility of his genius was apparent. Apart from his splendid academic record and « his_brilliant career as an athlete, both in foot ball and in track, he played in the university orchestra and was inimitably comi® in student vaudeville. His humor on the stage and off was original. Of his career as a foot ball coach and as a leader in the do- main of college sports, the world is well informed. His rise to fame was rapid and his career triumphant, but what he prized, I think, more than anything else was the multi- tude of friends he had and his friends adored him. He was so keen, so dynamic, so interested when he was interested, that his appeal was irresistible. His range of sym- pathies was amazing. He read the best books, as assimilated what he read. He appreciated excellence wherever it was found. He was a devoted husband and father and a loyal Catholic. (Copyright. 1931, by the North Ameri- tan Newspaper Alliance.) | By the Associated Press. In 13 years as head foot ball coach at Notre Dame, Knute Rockne led only | e did | the Irish suffer more than one defeat. | Their poorest season was that of 1928, 12 defeated teams from the field In only two years under Rockn when they were beaten four times. Notre Dame’s complete record for the United States when he was 5 years old, | 13_years of the Rockne regime sh()\;s‘ n He had one of | compiling this record the Irish scored 105 victories, 12 defeats and 5 tics. 2,847 poinis to cpponents' 667. Fiv | Rockne elevens were unbeaten, those of 1919, 1920, 1924, 1929 and 1930. ‘The Rockne record Booaead CHARLES L. O'DONNELL, T § 1 bach, 0 0 CLEVELAND INLINE FORHEAVY BATILE | | Schmeling - Stribling Contest Now Appears Unlikely to Go 4o Chicago. i E ! By the Associated Press. [ HICAGO, April 1.—Chicago as the site for the world heavy- | weight championship fight be- tween Max Schmeling and ‘Young Stribling appeared to be slipping | today tn favor of Cleveland. | William E. Carey, president of Madi- | son Square Garden Corporation, and | Joe Jacobs, manager of the German | | title holder, were in Cleveland today to investigate the situation there, after | encountering “certain difficulties” in | connection with their plans to stage the fight in Chicago. They had been in conference here with Sheldon Clark, | | wealthy Chicago sportsman, and George Getz, member of the Iilinois State Athletic Ccmmission, but s0 many com- plications presented themselves that they decided to consider Cleveland's offer for the fight before reaching & deciston. Carey and Jacobs intend to return to Chicago tomorrow for another con- ference with Getz and Clark. Clark, | 1t is understood, if the fight comes to | Chicago, will act as a promoter, but he will insist that 50 per cent of the profit shall go to charity. | The New York Milk Fund, which had been sponsoring the proposed bout, yesterday abandoned all further inter- est in i, leaving Carey free to take it to Chicago or elsewhere without being forced te give any further considera- tion to turning over any of the profits to the Milk Fund. 'BERLENBACH FAILS DESPITE KNOCKOUT !Ring Fans Jeer Suspicious Ending | of Bout With Clark—Ban on Victor Likely. e BY WILBUR WOOD. -| NEW YORK, April 1.—It would be | pleasant to chronicle that Paul Berlen- after three years' absence from the wars, returned to the ring last night to make a brilllant start along the | Rockneia i?riend Of Little Player BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. OUTH BEND, Ind, April 1 (C.P.A) —Knute Rockne, master strategist, great psychologist and inspirational leader of the gridiron, was, in addition, the friend of the little man in foot ball. Notre Dame University and the city of South Bend, partially recovering from the shock of the maestro's tragic death, were recalling today the many mira- cles worked by the great Viking across the barred turf of the foot ball world. It was Rockne who scorned the belief that a guard must weigh 190 pounds- and a good halfback should scale 175. A small man with ag- gressiveness and brains had more attraction for Rockne than some glant with slow reactions. On the Notre Dame campus gray-haired riests with tear-filled eyes related ow the famed ‘“Four Horsemen” averaged only 150 pounds, in their sophomore year, yet were tognadoes of devastation on the fleld. They pointed to such midgets in stature as Bert Metzger, “Clipper” Smith and Johnny Law, who became famous as guards on great Notre * comeback trail by knocking out Eddie Clark, New Jersey Negro, in the third l;cund at the Broadway Arena in Brook- yn. 2 | Oom Paul did score a three-round knockout, but he showed nothing to warrant the belief that he has any business i the ring.. The boxing com- mission, in respense to his persistent pleadings, granted him permission to | engage in a four-rcund trial bout. It is unlikely, after what happened last night, that he will be allowed to box again in this State. As a_demonstration of his fitness to fight, Berlenbach's affair with Clark was not sufficient to fool even a kin- dergarten student of the Queensberry The gathering of about 2,000 persons started booing the fight in the second round, and when Clark pitched forward on his face after one minute and 18 seconds of the third, there was a storm of catealls. " Hockey Score International League Play-offs. Cleveland, 3; Pittsburgh, 1. ‘Windsor, 2; Buffalo, 1. National League Play-off, Chicago, 1; New York, 0. American League Play-off. Duluth, 3; Kansas City, 3. FOOT BALL WIZARD FINE ENTERTAINER Had Inexhaustible Fund of Stories About Himself and His Players. BY CHARLES DUNKLEY, Associated Press Sports Writer. \HICAGO, April 1.—Knute ‘ Rockne will be remem- bered for his, foot ball| accomplishments as “the Wizard of Notre Dame,” but of all the figures in the athletic world | he was by far the moest entertain- ing. His fund of stories, told about himself and about his players, was inexhaustible, and they were part of the tradition that has been built up around him. He never was backward about assert- ing his opinions about foot ball and its conduct. He was involved in more con- troversies over rule making than any other ccach in America. His develop- ment of the forward pass and the open game of which the now much discussed “shift” was the leading and most con- troversial feature, spread throughout the country until at present there are more than 100 ccaches using it. Although only 43 years old, prema- ture baldness, combined with his recent iliness, made many think he was much older. Rockne was kidded quite a bit because of the absence of hair on his head. He stopped the wisecrackers with this remark: “Well, Demosthenes didn't have any hair either.” Always Equal to Occasion. Never was Rockne without a wise- crack to fit every occasion. His tongue was as sharp as a sword and he would cut down a star foot ball player just as socn as some stumbling fourth-rater. His wisecracks and stories were gems. One of Knute's select sayings was: “Be a good loser, don't beef. But don't loce.” Ancther one: “T2 hell with the guy who'll die for Notre Dame. I want men who will fight to keep it alive.” i Once during a practice scrimmage he yelled: “Heads up there, Joe; they won't give you a chance to tie your shoes in the Army game.” ; “Bend your knees, Joe. Throw away your knitting needles and get in the ball game. Remember this is foot ball, rm{";tbuz mmly."‘ % ne, ng marvelous per- scnality and magnetism, was & driver: yet there was nothing harsh about his methods. As an instructor in chemistry and as an instructor on the gridiron, he gave boys sufficient time to master his system, but had no time for the youngster who failed to grasp them. There was no place for that type in Rockne’s teams or classes. He was a insistent master and uncomprcmising demander of discipline, but an under- standing one, who was never harsh or ahusive. He was famed as a master psychologist. Few had his knack of in- spiring men. In 1925 Northwestern, one of Notre amon Dame's major rivals, was beating the Fighting Irish, 10 to 0, at the end of the half. Disgusted with the stumbling of his piayers, Rockne walked into the dressing room between halves, took one disgusted look at the athletes sprawled | on the floor and snarled to Assistant Coach Anderson: “Fighting Irish, eh Well, you can have my share of them.” Then he walked out. | That Notre Dame team went back | into the game fighting mad and in two successive drives down the field won the game, 13 to 10. That was the way Rockne did things He knew the reactions of his players. He knew their individual faults. He knew how to correct them. Rockne made frequent use of his story-telling capabilities in teaching little but important lessons on the practice field, too. Some of the most choice of this sort were those used to deflate the conceit of players ‘who came to Notre Dame with fancy prep repu- tations. | Probably his favorite in this category was in the form of his between-halves | | condolence of a huge and highly rated | Notre Dame tackle, who had found himself consistently brushed aside by | his opponent during the first half. | “The whol> trouble is,” Rockne told | him confidentially, “that fellow doesn’t | know who you are. Go out there next | | half and show him your clippings and ] he'll let you alone!” | Beloved by His Players. | Rockne was beloved by his players. | Jack Elder, one of Rockne's greatest stars, now a newspaper man in Chicago, | was kidding his former chief about signing_up for a couple of charity | games the night before Rockne left for | | Kansas City, to depart westward and | to his death in the air. | thanks,” he through. The last two games cost me | . “Ne, | $3,500. Hereafter when I'm approached | replied, “I'm to put on a charity game, I'll just send a check for $100. They found out I'm good for $100 for any charity.” . |PAY FINAL TRIBUTE | TO JOHNSON TODAY Body of Former Base Ball Chief Will Rest in Cemetery at Spencer, Ind | By the Associated Press. | | SPENCER, Ind, April 1.—The body |of Byron Bancroft Johnson, former | president of the American Base Ball | League, will rest in a cemetery on the banks of White River here, following funeral services this afternoon, when the base ball world pays its final tribute. Arrangements were made for the | base ball leader to lie in state at the | Spencer Christian Church from noon ! until the services at 2 pm. The body | was brought to his home here Monday | from St. Louls, where he died last week. | A number of base ball executives who | | yesterday attended the funeral at Cleve- land of Ernest S. Barnard, Johnson's successor as American League president, | were expected to attend the services | here. Barnard preceded Johnson in | death by & few hours. | College Ball Maryland, 10; V. M. I, 2. Dartmouth, 11; Virginia, 9. Marines, 12; Drexel, 5. Bridgewater, 6; University of Dela- w’:re. 5. forth Carclina-Cornell, rain. g the finer cigars There is a strong appeal about the Sweet and Mellow flavor of ELVERSO that is irresistible to discriminating smokers. On ce they taste ELVERSO flavor they smoke this bran ||N | Py P d exclusively. *ELVERSO is my' best seller the better cigors” A A.U. COURT PLAY T0 CLOSE TONIHT Five Title Matches to End Tourney—Clover Quintet Springs Upset. | tonight on the Tech High School court with 10 teams bat- tling for five titles. Emerging victorious in spirited con- tests last night, the Clovers and Poto- mac Boat Club scholastics will oppose in the feature battle. Two finals in girls’ classes along with a 115-pound and 145-pound champlon- ship game also are expected to furnish keen competition. The defeat of the United Typewriters by the Clovers last night was regarded as an upset. Last year the Clovers were beaten in the finals by the Mont- rose A. C., a team composed mainly of players on the current United Type- ;’lfl::rzstelm. Last night's score was ‘The closest game last night was the Awning Ace-Pctomac Boat Club Schol- astic 2ffair, the Scholastics winning, 36 to 32, in a thrill-packed contest. Saks Clothiers will play the Colonials tonight 1n the final 145-pound game. Saks won over Wallace Memorial, 44 to 20, last night HE 1931 District A. A. U. basket ball tournament will wind wp Boys' Club Optimists were crowned 130-pound champions last night, follow- ing their 34-to-14 victory over the Jew- ish Community Center quintet. Another Boys' Club Optimist five, this a 115-pound team, won over Uni- versity Shop by 34 to 12. The wine ner will play Charlottesville tonight. 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