Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1931, Page 53

PLAY OPENS EARLY | Pome | INHEAVY SCHEDULE Baltimore Poly vs. Tech, at Tech or GriMth Stadium. {Tech to Start Ball Rolling Against Baltimore Poly October 2. vs. Tech, at Tech. on September 25. Episcopal John Marshall High (Richmond, Va.) vs, Central, at Central. ‘Western vs. Gonzaga, at Gonzags. Natfonal Training School vs. Eastern, at Eastern. October 7. Business vs. Gonzaga, at Gonzaga. October ‘Washington-Lee High vs. Eastern, at Eastern. Swavely vs. Tech, at Tech. October 15. Gonzaga vs. Eastern, at Eastern. October 16. Business vs. Western, at Central. October 20. Central vs. Eastern, at Central. October 23. Tech vs. Western, at Central. October 27, Business vs. Eastern, at Central. October 30. BY EDWARD A FULLER, JR. | CHOOLBOY foot ball teams| . of the District area will open warfare in a little more than a month, Starting Septem- ber 25, when Tech, public high| school champion, meets Baltimore | Poly here, either in the Tech| Stadium in the afternoon or in Grifith Stadium at night, the| scholastics will keep on the jump | until around Tha ving. Play in the public high school title | series will open October 16, when Busi- | Central vs. Tech, at Central. ness and Western clash, but fans will| Georgetown Prep vs. Gonzags, not have to wait that long before hav- | Gonzaga. ing & chance to view some classy bat- ¢ tling. That Tech-Baltimore Poly game | should be well contested (Poly won last | year in Baltimore, 7 to 0), and a flock | of other bright early season struggles | are on the books. Old rivalries will flame anew on Oc- tober 2, when Episcopal and Tech | square off on the Tech field and West- | ern and Gonzaga come to grips in the | lair of the Purple. The same day Cen- | tral and John Marshall High of Rich- | mond, Va., which usually boasts a for- | midable team, will face in Central| Business vs. Tech, at Central. Stadium, and Eastern will have it out | Novetmber 26 with National Training School on the! - gridiron. | Central vs. Gonzaga, at Central h"l’&;l: minu:éu‘ J’hy two games in | November 25. ys to s season. The plan. | ¢ Club game-Central vs. opponent h1ed for the first time 188t year, Proved | to e anmonnted, st Gentral, * extremely helpful in giving Coach Hap | Hardell an idea as to how various mem- bers of his squad would perform under fire. After meeting Poly here Septem- | ber 25 the Gray will shift its battle- d the next day to Winchester, a., m l::e H.engley High, with ‘whic] year, 6-6. Tt & out 1n September 25. | Central and Tech will »| Central vs. Baltimore City College, | B e ATy Sdin. O | at SaRimmore (aignt). | tober 30. To date, an opponent has not | September 26. ‘een announced for Central for the an-| Eastern vs. Episcopal, at Alexandria n.mxb:c" Club_ Nzlne.u:hzlsch thls year | Tech vs. Handley High, at Winchester, | A The o majer games PREIEE fchoolboy teams of the Washington | November 3. Eastern vs. Western, at Central. November 6. Business vs. Central, at Central. November 10. Eastern vs. Tech, at Central. A November 13. Central vs. Western, at Central. | 8t. John's vs. Gonzaga, at Gonzaga. November 17. Away October 10. | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, HOYA GRID SQUAD D. C, AUGUST 23 1931—PART FIVE. - | Elevens Due for Big Season : Maryland to Have Its Largest Grid Squad. Engineer Officers Attaining Proficiency in Polo 48 GRIDMEN ASKED T0 TOIL ON LINKS To Use Spot as Foot Ball Field at Rehoboth, Not for Playing Golf. EORGETOWN UNIVERSITY'S foot ball squad, which will train at Rehoboth Beach, Del, will practice on the golf links there daily from September 1 to 19. The Hoyas will report at the university September 20 in order to register, and practice will be resumed daily on the new athletic fleld at the Hilltop followr s, xpected about 50 will make the trip to'Rehoboth Beach B y 11 letter men from last year's squad will be on hand. With Bill Mor- ris, who was captain, John Scals, Ed Leary, John Bozek, Mancell Gillis and Bob Brennan missing, there appears to be an unusual opportunity for new ma- terial this year. The Hoyas will open their season September 26 against Lebanon Valley in Griffith Stadium. Tolan Beatg Own Sprinting Record CONTENDER in the low- goal polo tournament to be 'ASTINGS PARK, Vancouver, B. C, August 22 (P) “Tolan, former Unive: Michigan Negro cinder star, bettered his world record in the 100 meter feature race of the British Columbia track and fleld meet here today, | A | Fall sppears to be the Fort Humphreys outfit. ‘With about 25 officers, or a third staged at Fort Myer, Va,, this | of those stationed at the post, tak- ing part in the intramural matches, several capable mallet artists have been developed. With an unusual amount of interest being exhibited | this season, & glowing future in the FORT HUMPHREYS QUARTET LOOMS AS CONTENDER IN ROW-GOAL TOURNEY. sport is promised the Engineers. The team that has been holding forth as the first-string combination includes Lieut. L. J. Rumaggl, Maj. J. A. McCallum, Maj. L. E. Oliver and Capt. H. A. Buckley, ple- T0 TRY FOR TEAN Ten of 1930 Regulars Among Those Due to' Report on September 7. NLESS there are ties,” for other, the Forty-eight men, 10 1930 regulars, five others who have won letters; 1% more who were on the Varsity squad last Fall, and 19 from last year's fresh- tured above. , ‘The Quantico Marines are the real | rivals of the Engineers. Thus far this Summer the competition has resulted in & victory for each team | and a draw. breaking the tspe in 103 He defeated Prank Wykoff, Uni- versity of Southern Californis, by two yards, while Percy Williams, Vancouver, Olympic games sprint champlon.'sat on the side lines with & sore muscle. Tolan’s time clipped one-tenth of | a second off the world mark of 10.4, jointly held by himself and Charlie Paddock of Pasadena, Wykoff, who has two unofficial records of 9.4 seconds for the 100 vards to his credit had hoped to run the “century” distance, but officials of the meet insisted on 100 meters. EL LAGARTO EASY SPEED BOAT VIGTOR |Reis Keeps Veteran Craft fares appears below: REACH LEGION FINALS Columbia in East, South Chicago in ‘West, Base Ball Victors. MANCHESTER, N. H., August 22 (). —Columbis, . C., won the American junior Eastern base ball cham- mlhlp from Jackson, Miss., by llwl.[ Wu« Columbia to repre- sent the in play for the national champlonship at Houston next week. COLORADO SPRINGS, August 22 () —South Chicago, 111, today won the All-Western American Legion junior base ball championship, Stockton, Calif., 8 to 6. he Illinois By virtue of the victory tl part in a “little world series” at Houston, | Central vs. Newport News High, at | Newport News. | November 6. ‘;vcbonnau vs. Swavely, at Manassas | va. | ! It was Tolan's first victory over | Flying Prank this year, in four races. In the other three, at 100 yards, Wykoff nosed out victor over the world champion, who holds the offi- cial record of 9.5 seconds. |IDOWN THE LINE WITH W. 0. McGEEHAN A Literary Second. |cinity of Poughkeepsie, N. T is refreshing to read in the latest | D¢ Wes a restiess spirit, l family to the Far West. as the Manassa Mauler really was |to me and made me restless. | _“So I ran away from home at the a inspired by higher things. You nemi“ 4. Eventually 1 found ge blography of Mr. Jack Dempsey| $000 Went co-educational, {ean tell about the inner workings of lunder the eims at Yale. How I there 1 do not quite recall I only Under Wraps in Feature for Gold Cup Racers. By the Associated Press. ED BANK, N. J, August 22— Skipping over the choppy waters of the Shrewsbury River at an average speed of 51 miles per hour ,El Lagarto, owned and driven by | George Reis of Lake George, N. Y., | today won the 45-mile feature race ](m’ gold cup boats in the national sweepstakes regatta. The five-step hydroplane, a veteran of nine years of racing, which after a fine start was forced to drop out of the gold cup races last Sunday due a sporting celebrity until he places | team will take Tex., August 28, 20 and 31. | | himself in the hands of & good ghost | writer, and Mr. Dempseéy seems to have | TO BE TRAVELING ELEVEN | vrier. na M. Dempey e o nave| of | Mr. Dempsey seems to have been in-| | college. to mechanical difficulty, won the three- know that I bounced from col | lege 10 | Freat race easily. 1 never it. “It was while 1 was strolling mear | After capturing the first two heats the Yale Bowl that I picked up a|in the fast speed of slightly better than hromo that somebody dropped. It was | 52 miles pér hour, Reis drove his racer a copy of the Mono Lisa. I tucked it cautiously in the final running, con- Washington College to Play One Nine Games at Home. , Md., August 22— September 26 at here will make nwg gafln 5.7 credlux}e showing against U ers or Al- ‘bright, figures it should have an even chance for victory in several other games. 5 ‘Washington’s schedule follows: ‘September 28 Ma Lo R, Hmeld 3 evitlord ANOTHER COACH HANLEY TLee to Handle n-:lee!d Men at South Carolina This Fall. COLUMEIA, 8. C., August 22 (P)— %es Hanley, who played in the back- fleld st Northwestern University, Chi- cago, last season, has been signed as backfleld foot ball coach at the Uni- versity of South Carolina. He will re- port September 1 Hanley is a brother of Dick Hanley, head coach at Northwestern. A sec- ond brother, Frank, is backfield coach et Northwestern, and a third. Mike, is to be assistant coach at Pennsylvania this Fall. MITCHELL T.RAP WINNER Annexes Open Title in Shoot-Of After Being Tied at 190. DAYTON, Ohio, August 22 (%) Civde Mitchell. Milwaukee professio broke 50 straight targets to win world open trapshoot champlonship at Vandalia, near here, ‘oday. He was tied by Joe Heistand, State singles champion from Hillsboro, Ohio, both of whom broke 199 clays during the 200-target shoot. Heistand, ho ever, missed out in the shoot-off by & single “bird.” Fred Tomlin of Glassboro, N. J. won third place with a score of 18 J. H. Wantlin of the New York A. C shot 50 consecutive targets to win a shoot-off for fourth place. His original score was 196. HOGS SWIMMING HONORS Homestead, Pa.p Club Boasts Both Winners in A. A. U. Meet. August 22 (#).— y Club of Home- stead, Pa, won both junior A F switning championships up for deci- at the Loulsville meet today. Russell Lpndberg won the junior men's 220-yard backstroke champion- ship in 2:47 2-10. ) tured the junior women's backstroke event in 1:31 4-10. ; 4 Cups Worth 825 APOLIS, August 22 (@).— automobile race Irene Patrick cap- | 100-meter ,spired by the ideals which sports writ- | into my pocket. But at that moment I |ers have been crediting exclusively to | decided that I would become a prize- | Mr. Gene Tunney. 5 | fighter. | Mr. Dempsey, who was absolved en- | tirely from any bookwarm prociivities, | Simple Training System. | seems to have been a deep student of **J REALLY did not train much for | Vietor Hugo. Also it seems that he that fight, beeause I had no evening cloth:s at the time. But | was a musical addict and s great lover | | rt. rt writer e 1 managed to get into the Metr tan | of Moza But no spol iter ever | Optes Touss saong (e v ropoli . | caught him off guard. Jack Kearns| th % De heard the entire Wagnerian Ring. At used to swear that Jac! mpsey never Sacied 0.t ity et GTver- read, so fer as he knew, and tat |first it the only music he ever d or ward I settled into | %o hear was some good jazz or & nice the swing of itand | mammty song. at the end of tnis | Probably Kearns was in league with | PEUOC 9 di“;ere $ Dempsey to keep the weaker side of | & €t & = the former heavyweight champion from | Ban. | his public. 1If it could be proved even | now ";1“ Dzn‘xpuy;-u a secret reader, | o the {and that before he became a prise- | 3 | Aighter he used to sneak in and hear |WOTODE T would | bits from Mozart, it would be. as the oot ghinee ;g 0 | boys say, @ terrible knock to the fight |ciens Hebrew | game. | ®"Also, 1t 1t could be shown that Demp- | very beneficial, | sey’s career was inspired by Homer, in- | Then I would have 33 stead of the late John L. Sullivan, it | mv shower and af- | again would be too bad, but the boys |ter that a light | never will believe | juncheon consist- it. They figure that | ing of & chocolate i Homer must have | nut sundse and & been some fighter | frosted sarsaparilla 4 who battled under | “Then I would go to the Metropolitan e the old London Museum and look at some good art. # )| prize ring rules. | I could feel myself growing intellectusl- U]~ Otherwise, Mr.|ly all of this time. My trainer ad { e | by Dempsey's latest vised th should no overdo my art { ghost writer might | exercises, it I found that it was hard | have put him in|for me to kesp myself back. | fo bad with the boys.| “He used to say to me, ‘Save some B 2 A ghost writer is|of the art for the ring, where it will i’ ' likely to do this|do you some good.’ I had to admit that Z with the best in-| he was right in this regard. If one tentions in the spends too much time in art it begins world. But then| to bore him, and a pugilist never ; again the ghost|should permit himself to be bored - writer might put by art at any time. him in right with the “nice people.” “I used to take a brief in the Of course, a person Who is interested | Afternoon, then read s lttle Browning in the resl personality of Jack Demp- until dinner, which usually |sey and how he got the way he is Of eclairs and s beaker of will be interested deeply in the auto- Sirup. The simplest food is best when blography Mr. Dempsey is publishing |One is in training. In the evening I with Mr. “Socker” Coe in his litera: :::;tn to the Metropolitan Opera House corner. Anybody will admit that M ® 5. o “My system of training proved to be Coe, as autobiographical second to Jack wise.. 1 knocked out the colored cOOK Dempsey, is rendering him greater as- v in one round. Then I knew that I had sistance than he ever was rendered in U privsge o | the ring by that very able man in the | corner, Mr. Jack Kearns. “Prom there it was only & step to | the library, and I rushed in and picked |up a copy of the ‘Iliad’ Of “course, my Greek was not entirely perfect, b 1 managed it, and was deep in it when 1 roused myself and said, ‘Now 1 know that I really will become a prize fighter, %0 1 signed up to meet the cook in one of the frat houses. He was a colored boy. This must not be held against Mr. | Kearns, for it is difficult for the man in the corner of the ring'to render any | | great assistance to nis charge when he s iis on the chin. But a literary man | " in the corner is invaluable to & prize-| The second lap of Maryland's Pall fighter in the literary rin The liter- | racing season, which opens September 1 ary man really can help out in a tight | 4t Marlboro, should see a capacity thor pinch. Mr. Coe could snd did. When Jack Dempsey and Jack Kearns | ©U/hbred colony, judging by the ap- There will be five {were two little pals together, Mr. |plications for stalls. Dempsey used to credit Mr. Kearns with | days of racing much of his ripg success. Now that| Ouy Bedwell, the only Marylander they no longer are thicker than Damon | ever to lead the list of American money | and Pythias, Mr. Dempsey says nothing | Whining trainers, wiil send several about eny credit or cash due to Mr. |horses to Marlboro from his famous Kearns. But he credits his literary | g second with many an assist. | _ Other well known Maryland turfmen He acknowledges that his fondness | whose colors will be seen during the {for Moszart and his passion for Hugo ing Marlbcro meeting are: Maj. { are due to the refining influences of his Harry Baker, | literary second, without whose aid he Long; | might have been inspired by Zane Grey and Irving Berlin. RACES AT MARLBORO TO HAVE BIG FIELDS Many Prominent Owners to Send Horses for Meet Opening on September 1. ‘there ever published NASHVILLE BUYS PLAYER. s one. tiee under the pen | | ehampion, it work is to be Shaw, and | tenting himself with third place for a grand total of 1,124 points. | Second place was won by John | Wanamaker, jr.'s, Louisa, which finished | second in the first heat, third in the {second and shot by Miss Philadelphia, | ' | ALONG THE WATERFRONT BY FRANCIS | | F course this race between Gar Wood and Kaye Don for the British international trophy isn't along our water front, but there isn't s water sports lover anywhere who isn't interested in finding out whether England’s speed kings are to rule the waters as well as the nd and air. The classi the Detroit River on September 5, 6 and 7, promises to be the greatest speed boat race in the world. NGLAND holds the land speed rec- ord, 245.733 miles an hour, made by Bir Malcolm Campbell. She also holds the air speed mark, 357.723 miles | an hour, made by, Flight Comdr. A. H. | Orlebar.” And Kaye Don has driven & K boat 110.223 miles an hour, faster | than any other human. | “"But Garfield Arthur Wood still holds the title of the world's speedboat king because for 10 years straight he has de- | feated all comers in the British inter | national trophy. | AR WOOD long has been America's | champilon. And a lonesome champ, | " too. In his 20 years of racing he | has made his rivals look twice at their | gear shifts to see whether their boats| | were in neutral, so fast has Wood been | | " But with Kaye Don on deck, Wood's | not lonesome any longer. | YXTHEN & boat goes 110 miles an hour the bottom must be polished to | a gloss that would make flles | think they were in an amusement park | rolling barrel. When Gar Wood con- structed Miss America IX, his curren racer, he examined 180,000 feet of Phil | ippine mahogany under & microscope to | see that the grain lay just the righ wWaYy. ACK to our own water front, we find { boat enthusiasts all steamed up over the President's | Cup regatta, to be held on the Eastern { Branch September 18 and 19. Gordon Leech, secretary of the Re- gatta Committee, | Cup races at Montauk Point and says | Hotsy Totsy, queen of America’s speed- boats, will have to step along better than 53.59 miles an hour to repeat her triumph_in the President’s Cup. | " Miss_Philadelphia, John Shibe's new craft, is the reason, says Leech. M Philly can step a-la-Shibe’s Athletics Couuononl ED BALTZ has two ambitions in_connection with the | ™ President’s Cup regatta. One, of course, 15 to make it a clicky affair, “The other is to see his Falcon Fiyer, crack outboard, win the coveted Class © race. Baltz i convinced that Bill Feld- hauser, the New Yorker,.is the man to beat. Peldhauser twice this season ha: trimmed Baltz's . but Ed still thinks his is the better craft. Hunter Grimes, local youth, will pilot Palcon Flyer. ICK LOYNES, famous California driver, will bring his Miss Cali- fornia here next week to rebuild was disappointed t, when his odd-looking white to be a threat after down in the first heat. plant broke at y there is too which will be run on | attended the Gold | s'\en'gred seven men and Brooklyn Y. sperdster ceased two of the 16 cylinders in her power | | owned by John Shibe, on the back | stretch, of the last 1ap to win the third | heat for an aggrégate of 1,085 points. | | The third entry, Miss Philadelphis, | | totaled 1,046 points. | |, The winning boat’s average speed n | | the first heat was 52.74 miles per hour | and 5227 in the second heat. Louisa’s time, 5342 miles per hour |in the last heat, was the fastest of the day. She finished 75 yards shead | | of her Quaker City rival, which aver- | ged 53.03. | In neither the first nor second heats | did Fl Lagarto appear to be racing her fastest. Reis appeared to be ing sguinst a breakdown, in_anticipation |of the running of the national sweep | stakes tomorrow. | Victor Cacace, jr.’s, Lightning, from | Norfolk, Va. compiled & lead of 361 | points after the running of the first two | of four 7Ti;-mile heats to decide the American championship in the 151 cuble-inch hydroplane class. _Averag- | ing 45.05 miles per hour, Lightning won the first heat, showing the way to three other boats, one of which did not fin- ish. Black Hawk, was second and Miss | Ricochet third. The Atlantic City entry, Spitfire, | which did not finish in the first heat, | won the second in the slow time of | 27.27 miles per hour. Lightning was second and Black Hawk, the only other | starter, did not complete the race. The first Eastern championship for boats in_the 125-cubic-inch class was | | won by Billy Tuck of East Greenwich, R. I, who drove an average speed of 3247 miles per hour. Second piace went to Flying Eagle, 2d, and Chotsle, 3d, was third. i HARPERS FERRY, W. Va., August | 22.—The Potomac River was clear and | the Shenandoah muddy this evening. | JROR the first time in the history of the President's Cup Regatta, there } will be an open outboard race. At a recent meeting the American Powerboat Association sanctioned the ruggestion of the National Outboard | Association to have amateurs and pro- fessionals compete together. It's a new wrinkle in the President’s | | Cup, but it'll be run exactly like open | gol! tournaments. The winner, should he be an amateur, will select a trophy. The first pro to finish collects the sugar. | | AMES COUNCILLOR has accepted | the chairmanship of the President’s | Cup PFinance Committee. .. The | National Racing Association has offi- | cially approved the course for the clas sic.. It starts from the Navy Yard Washington’s delegation to Montauk | Point, Commodore Baltz, Edmunt F.| Jew:ll, Gardiner Orme and Gordon Leech were thrilled to see the 8-year- oid El Lagarto show her heels to Hotay | Totsy before breaking down...The 131 hydroplane race promises to be good. .. | Eight cf America’s fastest will be in it | ...The Racing Circuit Rider Club will |make its headquarters at the Willad | pack quite s span in American sport.' while here for the President’s Cup... | Gordon Leech is at Red Bank, N. rounding up more entries. 'RUDDY AND SPENCE | SWIM HEADLINERS New York A, C. Aces Will Be| Rivals in President's Cup | Race Saturday. Athietic Club, is expected to| | feature the annual President’s Cup hree-mile swim next Saturday on the| | Potomac. The event again will be under BATTLE for first honors be-| tween Ray Ruddy and Walter | the auspices cf the Washington Canoe agal Club. ! Ruddy has won the race the last four | years and Spence, holder of various national records, has triumphed once. | Wallace Spence, Don Ruddy, Leo Geibel, Ed Lee, Joe Farley and Joe | Grady are other N. Y. A. C. entrants. | " Lawrence Buscher is figured to make | the best showing of the Washington ‘anoe Club representatives. Bob Wrenn nd Frank Daly, other District boys, | also are expected to do well. | Baltimore Y. M. C. A, led by George | | Dyer, who was sixth last year, [C. A. and several other clubs in | East are expected to be represented. \LOWER SWIMMING MARKS of Prance TR defmnahy b up. o y up a new | mark for the loo—mel.e;mgrnn stroke, | completing the distance in 1 minute 29 3-10 seconds, 'hll:’ ‘Welss of ;Don, Record Holder, on Scene For Boat Classic With Wood; His Modesty Wins Yachtsmel}; BY DAVID J. WILKIE. By the Associated Press. propeller geared to turn 12,000 revolu- | tions per minute. b 3 i Wood undoubtedly will enter three of | ETROIT, August 22—Bringing| pis speedboats against the British chal- | what is conceded to be the|lenger. Whether these will include 8 o.og most serlous threat ever mede new Miss America has not been made | inst the powerboating su- | known, ‘Wood evat all questions as agal | to whether he is building a new craft. premacy of Gar Wood, the British lp&d\flg liu ',;mwnhm ‘:::vb:” ‘been knn}y dis- king, Kaye Don, arrived in Detroit | appointed at his ity to equal Don's today to prepare for the n-mwmm:“';‘lm"d °'m":,’;e“wn“,“;‘p;.“m"g‘,“h Trophy races here September 5-7. Miss America IX were made, but with- Don, who holds the world’s record out avail, and when Don shortly after- for speed on water—110.223 miles an | ward boosted the record to more than ot a4 I.Akl”:')]m“(es an hour, wo‘nd umpn;;rn.yo. hour, ~established | at_least, abandoned plans Garda, Italy—instantly won the wm-'\b:tyter Wlllh nn’v :‘fc ll.l &mmv‘vn‘;‘?e mittee of Detroit motor boat enthusiasts | Present plans indicate there = | no astemnt at a straightaway record by in his response to & speech of welcome. | ntiqs” England II during the regatta Modestly, he sai e have a good ' here. . boat and we hope to make a good | peo ek e showing against Gar Wood.” | i pmastimge s AL ] THIRD LANARK LEADER Spence, both of the New York | Sacke He explained today that although he had driven the craft faster than any human ever before had piloted a speed boat, he never had driven a big boat in competition with another master pilot. ile the performances of the Brit- ish craft have shown it to be faster than Wood's Miss Americas, of which he has three in commission, Don is | expected to lose some of this advantage in the fact that he is unfamiliar with the Harmsworth course here. Wood, on the other hand, has been over the course literally hundreds of times and | is familiar with every inch of the 5-, mile course and its numerous turns. It is to familiarize himself with these sharp turns and determine how fast his craft can take them that Don has day and be towed across the river im- mediately. The craft is 36 feet 6 inches long, with a beam of 10 feet 6 inches and powered with two engines that deliver 4,000 horsepower to a single THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE— A Long Way Back. YOUNG fellow by the name of Amos Alonzo Stagg celebrated his sixty-ninth birthday anni- versary recently. As a competi- tor and a coach of competitors he goes ' | Still active in the game and ready for his fortieth season at Chicago Uni- versity, he back to the day of Heffelfinger, fore the day of Hinkey. He was a star fopt ball end and a star base ball player 17 years before Ty Cobb came to the big top at Detroit in 1905. He had eome to his fame 15 years before Bobby Jones was born—six years be- fore Babe Ruth was born, This was, years before was before Cy Young pitched his first me for Cleveland. Larry Lajole wes & young cab driver in Woon- o ¢ and H::u.u ‘agner was & bow- I kid. Yet this is the same Stagg who ‘will send his team inst Yale this Fall, inst the blue stronghold he left about the time Walter Camp was picking his first All-American team—of which Amos Alonzo Stagg was one of the leading stars. The Left-Handers. | HE record Bob Grove has set this| sucocess m out the uncanny success Mack has had with handers. He has sent into action that ever pitched, ith & lst that in- night off, but Don is eagerly awaiting the arrival of his record-holding hydro- e plane, Miss England II M of the ensuing two weeks he is e to spend on the race course in the Upper Detroit River. Only City With Scottish Scecer Play. GLASGOW, Scotland, August 22 (fl.‘ —Results of Scottish first division soccer matches leave Third | today Lanark as the only city with full | points. Motherwell lost its first! | game, being nosed out by Kilmarnock {by the one goal scored, while Celtic |could only draw at Aberdeen. | Hamilton Academicals made a show | of Dundee, piling up six ‘while their opponents were ting two. Rangers overwhelmed St. Mirren with a four-goal shut-out. FOUR D. C. fiEN IN SHOOT Four members of the Washington Gun Club will comj in the Grand American Handicap trapshooting 3 plonship which opens tomorrow at Vandalia, Ohio, continue through Saturday. ‘They are C. C. Fawsett, who won the championship in the first District title shoot held a few months ago; Julius Marcey, Charles Wilson and ' son, Walter Wilson. | Grove have 2ll been world series stars, | with Grove still the big factor in the | next series just ahead. the | left-hander was once a favorite inter- | sectional pastime, but when you check ! back upon their roles in various pen- | nant races/the shadow of the wild rasp- berry bush falls the other way. If you don't think so, you can get a few in- timate details from Connie Mack. The question of imposing & tax on foot ball gate receipts may add another | the 3d argument to the Fall campaign, which o U sgad - ':'nhz ORll h Ster! will captain the team p] caj and um% will be & two other seasons put together. charge has been made again that foot ball is no longer a sporting proposition for youth, but a Romen circus for the multitudes. Yet every Fall there are more young men out playing foot ball, and any one who can force a modern youth to <o something he doesn't want to do can end the present fragile de- pression in about 26 minutes. (Copyright, 1931, by the North Ameriean Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) 'EPINARD'S SON WINS | BRILLIANT VICTORY | ‘}Iygro First by Five Leng hs in Turf Race With 15 of West's | Two-Year-Olds. | By the Associated Press. HAWTHORNE RACE TRACK; CHI- | CAGO, August 22.—A new speed mar- | vel of the Western turf flashed to vie- | tory todsy when Hygro, 2-year-old scn of the famous French stallion Epinard, owned by George Winfizld, mining mag- n in winning Juvenile Handicap, with a gross value of $13,850. Hygro ecnquered 15 of the galloping The fleet October 10—Navy at Griffith Sta- dium, Wi October 17—Kentucky at College October 24—V. M. 1. at City. Sta- dium, Richmond, Va. Bigeisburg, Vo " , Va. November 7—Vanderbilt at Nash~ ville. Park. (Homécoming). vember u-—-nnuua) Hopkins at Baltimore - r 5—Western Maryland - at Baltimore Stadium. . Varsity “B” Squad Schedule, October 17—Catholit U. Preshmén College October 31—V, M. 1. Preshmen at Lexington, Va. November 6—Washington and Lee Freshmen at Lexington, Va. November 14—St. John's PFresh- men at Col Park. November 26—Navy “B" squad at Annapolis. x SO W PO PN OLD LINERS IN SHOOT Sterling, Captain, and Silverberg on R. 0. T. C Rifie Team. University of Maryland has provided ten men who will represent two of the Area R. O. T. C. in the uht’rul le matches at Camp Perry, HOLD GRID MEETINGS Petworth and Brookland Clubs ia Get-Togethers Tuesday. A mee of the Petworth P-unna !bn-pounlt‘lu ironers, will be Tuesday st avenue and Varnum street. requested to attend or communieate "’I’t: Manager Dick Bedell at Columbus Johnny Chadwick will coach the Pennants. Silverberg will leave for year. Brookland A. C. foot ballers will hold their initial meeting Tuesday at guT TODAY 7 I Y. 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