Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1931, Page 30

" C-2 s PORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON; D. 0., TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1931, SPORT West Point Cadets Are Cold to Resumption of Athletic Relations With Navy MIDDIES' DESIRE NOT RECIPROCATED Soldiers Appear Satisfied| With Grid Games With = | Other Big Teams. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. T POINT, N. Y., June 2.— | West Point Cadets do not share the enthusiasm which | was manifested at the Naval | Academy last week over the possibility | of a resumption of efforts to break the deadlock in athletic competition b!-; tween the two service institutions. The writer today found a state of mind | ranging from mild interest to down- right indifference. i At a recent meeting of graduate and | undergraduate letter men at Annapolis Ernest Lee Jahncke, Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, advocated a resump- tion of relations, and part of what he sald was construed to mean that the question might be put up to the Cadets | and Midshipmen for settlement. Want Foot Ball Game. ‘There is no question that the corps | of Midshipmen is in favor of a renewal of relations, particularly in foot ball. No other rivalry has taken the place of the Army contest. So far as foot ball is concerned, games against insti- tutions other than West Point are mere- ly games. They lack that fine, elusive essence which goes beyond mere sport and reaches into the roots of fervor de- veloped in the sofl of tradition. Fall seasons that lack a contest with the Army on the gridiron are comparatively drab and spiritless. ‘West_Point, on the contrary, has the Notre Dame game and contests with Yale and Harvard, all of which are in- vested with a color quality of peculiar vividness. The @#ttitude toward the Navy game was impressively manifested after the charity clash at the Yankee Stadium last Fall when the Cadet regi- ment dispersed without observing the traditional formality of messing before | the Navy stand and exchanging the | usual compliments. | The Middies stcod waiting with their | chins out, ready and willing to take it; | but the Cadets simply ignored them and made their individual way out of the fleld. It was not a pleasant incident for any older observer who holds a brief for the amenities of sport to witness. Purely Cadet Action. The writer learns that what amounted to a snub was purely a cadet action. Before leaving West Point for the game the student officers made it known to the academy authorities that, unless they were ordered to do so, they would not in event of victory mass before the midshipmen's stand; or, in defeat, await the massing of the naval cadets. All of which causes the writer to be- lieve that any one who expects the cadets to be enthusiastic over a project to bring the two academies together in sport is going to be greatly disappointed. Just now, as a matter of fact, the student body at West Point is spending | its enthusiasm over the assurance that | it will be taken to Pittsburgh next No- | vember to the game between the Army and Pitt. This fact is not generally known. The writer happened to be in West Point today when permission from Washington for the cadet corps to make the trip arrived. It will be a fine show for Pittsburghers, and will cost & bit more than $50,000. MIGRATORY BIRD LAW MADE MORE DRASTIC Shorten Open Seasons Approved by President—Hunting Hours Are Changed. President Hoover hes approved amend- ments to the migratory bird regula- tions adopted by Secretary of Agricul- ture Hyde. Regulations increasing the protection of migratory birds, recom- mended by the Biological Survey, will affect hunters in all parts of the United States. ‘The chief amendment is one that shortens the open season 15 days on ducks, geese (including brant), coots and jacksnipe. Hereafter the seasons on these birds will start 15 days later in the northern parts of the country and close 15 days earlier in the South. One effect of this amendment will be to pro- hibit the shooting of ducks, geese, coots éu’\d" jacksnipe in September in any tate. A further amendment of general ef- fect regulates the hour at which hunters can begin shooting on the opening day of the season in each locality. Here- after, it will be illegal to hunt migratory mgme birds before noon on the opening . Other general provisions are con- cerned with decoys, baiting, and bag limits. Not more than 10 live goose decoys may be used or shot over at any one gunning stand, blind or floating devise. Baiting for mourning doves with salt or with wheat or other grains will not be permitted, and it is illegal to take these birds on or over areas s0 ited. The bag limits on those geese for which open seasons are provided are ehmged by including brant with geese end limiting the total of all geese (in- cluding brant), to four a day and eight in possession. -~ GETS HIGH SPORT AWARD Williams, Wins Medal at Hargrave Academy. ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2.—Frank | Alexandria Boy, medal awarded annually at Hargrave Military Academy for the school's best | sll-round athlete. ‘Williams, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Prank L. Willlams, 220 West Howell avenue, Alexandria, won five major letters for track, 3 basket ball, foot ball and tennis during the past year, his first at Hargrave. It is expected that “Little Jefl,” as he is known to his friends, will enter Georgetown or Richmond U. this Fall. Four other Alexandria boys played | foot ball at Hargrave. They are George Beach, captain of the Hargrave eleven and all-State center; Parke Bell and Russell Sutton, halfbacks, and Robert Arnold, linesman. | CONNIE COMING TO IT , Mack Beginning to Think Present A's Are Greatest Ever. Connie Mack has been reluctant to rate his present ball club the best of those he piloted to pennants and world championships, but his recent comment indicates he may believe the A's of 1931 greatest: ~T mever felt so certain they were & ghat team until I saw them rushing up from behind in to cut down thel ning to think earning ! ders.” But about this time Ed Walsh, New C. U. Coach EX-IRISH GRIDDER JOINS OLD SCHOOLMATE. FORREST COTTON. ORREST COTTON, new assistant foot ball coach at Catholic Uni- versity, is the second former Notre Dame star to come to the | Brockland institution’s staff in mt; years. Arthur (Dutch) Bergman, head | coach of the Cardinals, was & senlor | at South Bend when Cotton was a freshman. Bergman was & halfback and Cotton a tackle. Bergman was virtuslly s unanimous choice on the All-America team and Cotton in his last year, 1922, was widely mentioned for national honors. He was conspicuous that year in a scoreless battle between Notre Dame and Army. Bllly Evans was among several who picked him for the All-America. Cotton, who will report in the Fall, has spent eight years at St. Ambrose College, Davenport, Towa, as head coach of foot ball, basket ball and track, He is 30 years old, married and has®two children, a girl, Jean Morris, 3, and & boy, Jack. 1. He will spend the Summer as di- rector of Davenport’s playgrounds. Cotton introduced the Notre Dame style of foot ball at St. Ambrose and his teams there averaged better than .500, though ever so often they com- peted in a higher class. Over the eight years his basket ball teams had a win- ning percentage of .750. | This week he will be given a farewell banquet by the St. Ambrose Alumni Association, one of a series of such oc- casions, Cotton having been thus hon- ored aiready by the school's faculty, which presented him with a purse: by the Monogram Club, which presented him with a watch, the Student Council ' | | N AS BEST AT MILE Many Turfmen Predict He'll Beat Twenty Grand in Belmont Stakes. BY HENRY V. KING. EW YORK, June 2—James- town’s great victory in the Withers Stakes on Satur- day proved conclusively that the son of St. James is the | best miler among the 3-year-olds in America and it caused an army of turfmen to proclaim him the champion of his age and predict that he will defeat Mrs. Payne Whitney’s Twenty Grand, winner of the Kentucky Derby, when they meet two weeks hence in the Bel- mont Stakes. But, despite his brilliant race, the men who lay the odds refuse to make him favorite over Mrs. Whitney's colt for the mile-and-a-half contest on June 13. They say Twenty Grand is their choice now and that unless Jamestown turns in a noteworthy trial over a long distance of ground between now and the big race he will go to the post favorite. Many horsemen and professional htndle‘&pfll disagree with them on is point, Lhwfh. They assert the Widener colt will have the most sup- nflu‘ and that the Withers victor will id the place of honor when the fleld parades to the post for the $75,000 stake. Wasn't Extended. It is the opinion of scores of experts that Jamestown is & stayer. They de- clare that he could have run any dis- tance and beaten any colt his age on Saturday. They point out that he was extended for less than & furlong in the ‘Withers and that if he had been per- mitted to do his best all the way, he would have run much faster and have come mightly close to equaling the world record of 1:35 for the mile. time standpoint, but it wasn't the “clock” that convinces his supporters he is a_great colt. It was the way he accomplished his task: the way he fol- lowed a sizzling pace for half a mile and then stepped to the point and, with little apparent effort, ran away from his opponents. He was under stout re- straint during the final furlong and came back to the scales in fine condi- He was a litt's tired, as any horse must be after running a mile in such fast time, but he wasn't distressed. He cooled out quitkly and ate his dinner with a relish. In his trainer's nion, and the senior class of 1931. the race will do him a lot of good. THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RI Untangling the Tangle. AVING been awarded the cus- tody of Primo Camnerals 270 pounds, including botly feel H Square Garden could make now: ‘would | be to put on & Sharkey-Carnera party of its own and so clear up the heavy- weight tangle. As the case stands, it still is sadly muddled. It would be something of & joke to throw Camnera in against the winner of the Schmeling-Stribling fight and leave Jack Sharkey on the outside. There still are more than a few who believe that Sharkey is the best heavy- weight in the game. Maybe he is and maybe he isn't. The point is that he must be in the picture until some one now around beats him. The Garden has Stribling, Schmel- ing and Carnera cornered. ‘The move to Sharkey and Carnera and then throw the winner against the winner of the Schmeling-Stribling fight. This would | prove something and decide who is the real champion. A program of this sort also would increase public interest in each of the shows to be offered, and public interest has to be fairly keen now to start any wild rush of spending. Fesler Keeps It Up. WEBLIY FESLER gave an exhibition of all-around foot ball playing at Ohio State last Fall which has rarely been equaled, much less sur- . He stands today as one of the best all-around athletes any university has yet developed. Only a few days ago he gave an exhibition in base ball, which must be a college record, although there are no statistics at hand to prove the case. : In a game against Illinois Fesler came to bat five times and blew him- self to three home runs and two doubles for a total of 16 bases. This is only one base back of the record set by Ed Delehanty and Bobby Lowe, who fired four home runs and a single for a total of 17 bases. Two of Fesler's home runs came with | the bases filled. The Ohio star also is | one of the leading students in the uni- versity, a Phi Beta Kappa man, and one of the most popular athletes it ever | wore the scarlet and gray. ‘Winning Streaks. recent rush of the Athletics re- calls the American League record the White Sox hung up 25 years ago. They were in seventh place, with & team batting a: around 218, their title as the “hitless won- Nick Altrock and Doc White began & make would be to match (g itching streak and Jiggs Donahue, at began playing and hustling like a parkful of centipedes. _From seventh place the Sox rushed first place, and then upset the the smartest move mem Cubs in four games out of six, after the Cubs had broken a pennant record with 116 victories. The White Sox couldn’t hit & lick, but they had great pitching and some of the smartest men in base ball, with Sullivan catch- ing, Donahue, Isbell, Plelder Jones and Tannehill on the job. ‘The stampede of the Athletics has produced about everything that winning base ball needs—a great manager, fine pitching, heavy hitting and team spirit. Both the old Sox and the present Ath- letics had great catching in Sullivan and Cochrane, but the latter stands out. Each nded on three winning pitchers, but even Grove, Earnshaw and ‘Walberg had nothing on Walsh, Altrock and White. In those days of 1906 the defensive side was a more important factor than it is today, when the punch 8 neoe item. (Copyright. 1931, by ‘North American News- paper Alliance, Inc.) by SCHOOLS HERE LIKE PLAN Willing for Title Teams to Take on Navy Plebes. Naval Academy athietic officials have been advised that the principals of the District public high schools favor ac- cepting their offer to have the plebes meet the championship schoolboy com- binations in base ball and treck each year on the last Saturday in May at Annapolis. the principals, Charles Hart, Eastern head, have sug- arranged star combination instead of with the school team that wins the Spring meet here. ‘This would assure better com- petition, it is thought. Jamestown’s time of 1:36 3-5 was & remarkably fine performance from & o// BosloN Collece IS ONE OF HE FLE ETEST HALF-MiLER'S IN CoLLeee JAMESTOWN SEEN | [ WHAT'S IN A NAME? T SwWiM A CRAWL. STeoKE. = Busle- CRABBE ~HOLDS .A. LonG | LST OF NATIONAL. SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS Afms TRONG - —THROWS THE DIscus AP WEIGHTS Fomr— ARMY QoL SWIFT-\_\\‘OM e “100* AT RE EAS RELAYS = |TROJANS MAY SET POINT SCORE MARK| | Southern California Conceded | N. C. A. Championship in Track Meet Saturday. By the Arsociated Press. CHICAGO, June 2—All the experts | have conceded the National Collegiate Association track and field champion- ship. which will be decided at Stagg Pield Friday and Saturday, to Southern | California, and about the only other | mark for the Trojans to aim at will b2 a new point score record. Under the N. C. A. scoring system, | which gives 10 points for first place, | eight for second, six for third, four for fourth, two for fifth and one for sixth, Southern Oalifornia, performing as it up close to 100 points. The record is | 72 points, set by Stanford in 1928. Southern California scored 55 27-70 to win last year's renewal of the event. The Trojans’ 46 and a fraction points | in the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet last week | i8 the approximate equivalent of 93 points in the N. C. A. LOSES GIRL ATHLETES Five of Hyattsville's Volley Ball | Team Will Graduate. ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 2.—Hyatts-' ville High girls’ volley ball team, which | won championship honors in the upper | section of Prince v Cosnty. bat lost to Brandywine High, lower section victor, in the championship match, will lose five of its eight regulars by gradu. ation. They are Jean Hamilton, Kathleen Hannigan, Jean Goss, Roberta Hannum and Nellle Samson. Those listed to return are Elizabeth Wetherald, Char- lotte Schrom and Mabel Schrom. Dorothy Clark, Jean Miller and Ruth Pierson, reserves, also will be available. Hyattsville High State title series ball game with Towson High, which was| Tained out yesterday, was scheduled | today in Baltimore. Hyattsville Southern Methodists have booked a game with the Southern Rail- way nine for Saturday in Magruder Park at 3 o'clock. U. 8. 8. Reina Mer- cedes nine of Annapolis will be June 13 at Magruder Park. li’la_ion;s Scouting - Big “Ten | Several Promising Youngsters on Teams, Includ- ing Son of Famous Bill Sulivan. BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. ANY scouts for both major and' minor league base ball teams have been prowling through the Western Conference. There are several promising youngster on con- ference nines and the old sleuths are giving them the once and maybe the twice over. ‘The big minor league teams no longer depend upon the majors to dis- cover ycung talent, but employ their did in the East last Saturday, may run own scouts. At the recent Northwest- ern-Notre Dame game, Jack Hendricks | of the Indianapolis club and Mike Kelly, manager of the Minneapolls team, both were in the stands. They were taking |a peek at Lee Hanley, Northwestern's center flelder, and Billy Sullivan, Notre Dame first baseman. The youngest of the athletic Hanley family has developed into one of the strongest hitters in the Big Ten and is a fast, flashy flelder. Eddie Herr of the New York Yankees watched him during the Wildcats' Spring trip through the South and several others have stamped him as promising material. Sullivan is a son of Billy Sullivan, who was famous as Ed Walsh's catcher back in the days when the Chicago White Sox were a power in the American League. Young Sullivan is a bit taller than his father and has inherited much of Billy's skill on the diamond. A left- handed batter, he hits the ball hard and has a neat glove around first base, but is taller than others who have starred at the position. Veller, the Indiana southpaw, is almoet certain to graduate into one of the higher base ball leagues. A tall, loose-jointed chap, he has a_splendid 1ast ball and a fair curve. Moreover, he appears to know considerable about pitching. Wesley Fesler, Ohio State's all-Amer- fca foot ball star, is one of the out- | standing base ball players of the Big Ten _and several clubs are eager to get Shires a Docile Athlete Now Whattaman Drops Publicity Antics in Minors and Becomes Val By the Associated Press. longer concerned with whether it's the biggest chew in the league. o , loquacif which made him * L Fair Sex Tennis on Rise Here Newcomers of Ability Promise to Add Much Interest to Tournaments This Season. It appears that the tennis season now under way here will prove par- ticularly interesting as to competi- tion among the women. Judging from their showing in the City of ‘Washington tournament, which is all over so far as the feminine racketers are concerned, several newcomers among the women must be reckoned with in the various tournaments, aside from the group which has been gaining most of the spoils here in recent yea: 'most among the new players are Mrs. Charles P. Stone and Mrs. John L. Newbold, jr., of the Chevy Chase Club, and the Tabler sisters, Clara_snd Amy. Mrs. Stone and Mrs. Newbold both have been play- ing at Chevy Chase, but untll the Cify of Washington fournament had not appeared In city-wide title com- petition. The Tabler sisters for- merly held forth on Baltimore courts, but more recently have been in Cali- fornia. z( Mrs. Stone d Mrs. Newbold to overcome the Tabilers in final of the woman's b Clara Tabler to gm the woman's singles crown. Tabler ap- ly more ad- . . Stone showed herself an un- usually heady player. She exhibited a hard service, & good forehand and hxnomymmmflu net. Mrs, Newbold displayed a softer game than Mrs. Stone, but an effec- tive one in which steadiness, caution and headwork inated. & woman. Amy Tabler fairly well, but may be heard from TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Capts EISEMAN’S, 7th & F cockiness ‘good copy” for the uable Ball Player. gperl, but “bad medicine” for his in the leagues, have been put away, with nt results to his play- ing in Class AA base ball. , fans and critics of the Brew- ers are convinced, now that the former - ttaman” has settled down to seri- ous pastiming, that the mannerisms which gained him columns of publicity, but no advanc:ment with the Chicago White Sox and Washington Senators, were not inherent in him, but merely assumed for purposes of attracting at- tention. t he did the latter is now base ball history. It is also that in the long run his actions redounded to disadvantage and his exit from he improvement. hustling all the time, doing his best to maintain harmony on the club, and for the first month of the season was bat- t over .400 most of the 3 one-time “great one,” in his own well-publicized opinion, has apparently found that the fans jug by results rather than by words, ‘bosses say. And he’s giving them the results. TODAY BASE BALL 1203 AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Washington vs Detroit TICKETS ON SALE AT PARK AT 9:00 AM. LIGHT CAR OWNERS— A NEW | 15-PLATE WILLARD | BATTERY FOR YOU! If you’re interested in a battery that will spin your engine faster, give you a hotter spark and better ignition—you’ll want to find out about the mew Willard with 15 plates. OPEN 8 AM. to 5:30 PM. WASHINGTON BATTERY CoO. Special Factery Representative 1146 19th St. N.W. North 0141 Willar TORA( fFi2iES BATT \ him. But Fesler has refused all offers became @ professional. Lew Hinchman, son of the old Pitts- burgh and Cleveland outfielder, is an- \other of promise, but only a sophomore. " CUBS ARE “DOGGIEST.” *Chicago Cubs are the “doggiest” club in the majors. Besides the snappy un'es of the players, the ushers are arr §3 in royal blue and gold braid and' refreshment vendors wear gaudy outf.ts. | THE M VAST HUDAK GRID COACH Ex-Hoya Star Named Assistant Mentor at Lehigh U. 'BETHLEHEM, Pa., June 2.—Appoint- ment of Johnny Hudak, former George- town University gridder, as_assistant foot ball coach at Lehigh University has been announced. Bohoot,” steen, former Lehigh who was forced to ‘business interests. Hudak was for three years a half- back with Georgetown and later helped the Apache eleven win the District of Columbia sandlot title. He will serve under Head Coach A. Austin Tate, from whom he learned his captain and tackle, Tesign because of LEADERS ARE PICKED FOR HILLTOP TEAMS Evers, Kelly, Mitchell and Fisher Chosen for Base Ball, Track, Tennis and Golf. spectively. Y. Mitchell is the only Washington boy of_the four. Evers, the son of Johnny Evers of the famed Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance combination of the old Chicago Cubs, has been = regular on the nine for for several years been s ranking man hereabout and has won several titles. He 15 23 and a student in the School of Bervice. Kelly has been on the track squad the last two years. Last Saturday he ran the half mile in 1 minute 55 sec- onds for the best performance in his career, to gain third place in the in- tercollegiate championships at Phila~ delphia. He also wes a member of the mile relay team the last campaign. He 1is expected to be outstanding next season. Kelly, who is 23, lives in Phil- adelphia. Fisher has been a consistent mem- ber of the golf team for the last two seasons. He is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, his home is Detroit and he is 21. NINE READY FOR ACTION. Johnny Fitzgerald manager, and Bud | Bellman has been named acting busi- | ness manager. The Mounts are after games with leading unlimited nines. Call Bellman, at Hyattsville 1043, after 5:30 pn. D06 RETRIEVES PILLS. ‘The Globe club of the Arizona-Texas | retrieve TIGER CREW COACH BELIEVED THROUGH Logg Is Well Liked, but Has Failed to Get Results With Varsity. HERE will be & change, 8o far as coaching is concerned, fin rowing system. While no definite statement has been made to this effect and no member of Princeton's Rowing Com- mittee has divuiged plans for the future, the writer predicts that Chuck Logg will not be head coach of the Nassau crews after this season. Logg is well liked at Princeton, his character and personality are highly appreciated and he has high merit as squatics aleak at old Nassau, whether it wishes to have rowing taught by & man highly qualified for the work. Right Man Hard to Find. The first course means a thoroughly amateur spirit on Lake , with crews thus developed pitted against {.he best rivals who have been under Con- sistent defeat, of course, is the price that will have to be paid. But defeat under such conditions may be worth rowing, or in any sport, or in of life, is worth while, i ‘The alternative is the e of & coach who has in him that curious blend of rowing knowledge, psycholog- ical insight, magnetism and & mind at- tuned to the mechanical requirements of rig which go to make up the suc- cessful teacher of sweep swinging. Such a man is hard to find, but there are such men and at least one is now available. 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