Evening Star Newspaper, October 7, 1931, Page 31

SPORTS. HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO! D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1931. SPORTS. Navy Looks for Hot Tilt With Maryland : Hoyas Given Even Chance With N. Y. U. Admits Maryland Worries Him| |1 | T0P S READY NAVY COACH THINKS BREAKS WILL DECIDE GAME HERE. FIGURES TERRAPINS HAVE SAVED PUNCH Game Here Saturday Means More to Either Eleven Than Grid Pre'stige. BY R. D. THOMAS. NNAPOLIS, Md., October 'L} A —Your Uncle Szm’s Mid-| shipmen were in high' spirits today over the un-, official announcement that an Army-Navy game might be played‘ this Fall, but the news served w; increase the Naval Academy's concern over the foot ball battle with Maryland Saturday in Grif- fith Stadium. 7 | The feeling here is that if Navy can | nail Maryland to the mast it should | look with & deal of confidence to the | remainder of its Tegular schedule and | come to the Army clash prepared to | uphold its end in making that game | its old classic zelf. | Trepidation is an emotion unknown, | at least unadmitted, in the -tmetic} | ranks of this institution, steeped in the philosophy of war, bvi the professional staff in the Navy's gridircn campaign would rather it be almost any other team on the list than Maryland for & contest at this time. You have that direct from none other than Rip Miller, head coach. His explanation was & bit of & treatise cn foot ball psychology and at the same time shed what to some folk was & new light on athletic rivalry be- tween Maryland and the Navy. | 2 | THE boys from College Park might | have been Terrapins sure enough when they won by only two touch- downs from Washington College and barely got away with a decision over Virginia, but the way Miller sizes up the impending struggle, theyll be & bevy of wildcats when the opening whistle blows Saturday. ! “Attitude may be 80 per cent of 8 team's effectiveness,” said Rip; “the difference between a poor and a great team, and I believe the outfit that goes | into Saturday’s scrap the better tuned will win. So far as mechanical foot ball goes, it looks like a toss-up. “We haven't been fooled by Mary- land’s showing egainst Washington and Virginia. Curley Byrd's bunch of seniors obviously didn't take either of those games too seriously. They were almost licked by Virginia before they could arouse themselves, but when they finally got started they went out and won the ball game. They showed & bit of the stuff we expect from them all afternoon. - S+T THINK you're going to see & great foot ball game. There's something more in back of it than a desire for prestige. You know, Maryland and Navy meet in several sports and we dom’t have a keener competitor. In recent years we've lost as often as we've won in sports other than foot ball and the boys at the Naval Academy are mindful of that fact. To the country at large a meeting between Maryland and the Navy may be of no great im- portance but to the athletes of both institutions every game, no matter whether it be base ball, basket ball, lacrosse, trock or foot ball, has in it much the same spirit you'll find in the various neighborhood battles of your own home town. Don’t lose sight of that fact in sizing up our foot ball game. If Curley Byrd’s gang have thought of anything else all Fall but | m ‘beat the Navy,' then I've been kidding myself. Believe me, we've given plenty of thought to Maryland and we're going to play our heads off to win.” Chasing Pigskins ssociated Press. | EW YORK.—A good share of the | foot ball players Frank Cava- naugh has at Fordham come from New England towns, but Greenfield, Mass., seems to have done more than its share in this rzspect. Three varsity members, Joe Bonitski, Phil Murphy and Connle Murphy, all call Greenfield home. NEW HAVEN, Conn.—May Stevens of Yale is having a bit of trouble with his varsity left guard and left end posts. He replaced Flygare with Hawler, a | tackle in 1929 and 1930, at end yester- day and had Al Strange, Ed Nichols and Bill Sanen at the guard position at one time or another. ! WEST POINT, N. Y.-If Michigan, State will acccpt a hint, a few forward | passes will be in order against Army Baturday ‘The scrubs, using Michigan | State formations, twice caught the| Army defense napping and all but| scored in yesterday's scrimmage. PRINCETON, N. J.—Al Wittmer at| Princeton has almost as many injured men as he has sound. The casualty list as of October 6 consists of Yeckley, Bales, Ceppi, James, Gahagan and Fortune. And the Brown game only a few days away. NEW YORK.— to make it tough for the scorers thcre are two Lamarks and three McNamaras on New York University varsity squad, and that’s not all—they're all backs. | — | PROVIDENCE, R. I.—Andy Rotell, | Brown fullback, has completed four years of college work, but he's still eli- gible for varsity foot ball. A transfer student from Holy Cross, he has played only two seasons of varsity foot ball. GLASGOW CUP PI:AY TIED. GLASGOW, Scotland, October 7 (#) —The Rangers and Celtics played to a 2-all tie in their semi-final match of the Glasgow Cup series. EDGAR (RIP) MILLER. GEORGETOWN'S FOE DISPLAYS POWER New York U. Has Scrimmage’ With Columbia—Little Is Back on Job. YORK, October 7.—New York University's foot ball team, polish- ing up for its big battle Saturday with Georgetown, showed offensive strength in a long scrimmage with Columbia University yesterday. Bill Abbe and Joe La Mark slipped through the Columbia lines and around the ends for a few lengthy gains, but generally the Lions tightened their de- fensive “tactics and held the Violets. New York confined its offense to run- ?eln. up‘}nyl. A few passes were at- mpted. Chick Meehan is using parts of three systems of attack. Occasionally the N. Y. U. team comes out of its huddle to the box formation of Rockne. At other times there will be a Warner for- tion and on still other occasions a plain, old-fashioned kick formation. Lou Little, the Columbia coach who was discharged from the hospital a few days ago after he was confined there two weeks with a fractured bone in his shoulder, still wore a plaster of paris collar but in spite of that handicap he was szmy most active person on the fleld. Georgetown’s New York alumni will hold a big- smoker and rally the night before the game at the Hotel Pennsyl- vania, which will be the visitors' head- quarters. Leo V. Klauberg, president of the Society of the New York Alumni of Georgetown, is directing arrange- ments. Alexandria Notes ALEXANDRIA, Va, October 7.— Iroquois A. C. plans to open its season here Sunday in a game with some speedy 150-pound club. No. 5 Engine Company, which defeat- ed the Petworth Pennants by a margin | of two safeties in its debut Sunday, is after games. Telephone Manager Ed- ward Fields at Alexandria 311. Natlonal Midgets, with Paul Shu scor- ing all of its points, trimmed the Vir- ginia Midgets by 24 to 0 on Shipyard Field yesterday St. Mary's Celtics base ballers, re- luctant to abandon their diamond cam- paigning, have booked another game with the White Oak A. C. for Sunday at_Predericksburg. Lyon Park A. C. is after a game Sun- day. Telephone Clarendon 2451 or 1356. Kirn Will Be Out 'Of Tilt Saturday NNAPOLIS, Md., October 7 (#).— “Bullet Lou” Kirn, battering ram of the Navy backfield, has been declared definitely out of the Middie- University of Marvland clash in Wash- ington Saturday, through reinjury of a twisted ankle. Kirn was out nearly all last week and did not play in the opening game Saturday, but took part in a stren- uous practice session Monday. The injury was aggravated then, Coach Rip Miller said, and the little halfback wil be pointed for the -Prinecton game, two weeks hence. Irish Fear for Win Streak Northwestern May Repeat Iowa’s Feat of Ending, South Benders’ S BY FRANCIS J. POWERS. OTRE DAME, Ind., October 7.—For the second time in its brilliant foot ball history Notre Dame has won 20 consecutive games. Today, with the Northwestern battle rapidly ap- ~roaching, Notre Dame followers anxiousiy were speculating whether the Raiders could defeat the Pur- ple and carry on to a new record or if the string would be broken as it was by another big tesn on another October day 10 years ago. Notre Dame's first long run of victories began in 1919—Knute Rockne's second season &s head coach of the Irish eleven. It start- ed with a 14-to-0 victory over Kala- mazoo and ended with a 10-to-7 de- f-at by Iowa in 1921. George Gipp, called the greatest tring at Twenty. of the long array of brilliant Notre Dame backs, played on Rockne's first two unbeaten teams, and the com- bination that faced Iowa included such stars as Hunk Anderson, Tom Lieb, Johnny Mohardt and Chet Wynee. But Iowa—that year West- ern Conference champion—had such stalwarts as Aubrey Devine and Gordon Locke driving from the backfield behind a line that owned the mhty Duke Slater and John Hancock. After one of the most titanic battles of the season the Hawkeyes won by the margin of a field goal. Once again Notre Dame faces a Western Conference team that ranks among the mightiest the Big Ten has known in years. Northwestern has becone in the past few seasons Notre Dame's greatest Mid Western rival and the Ramblers’ adherents are just a bit fearful t the Wild- cats may their cl of con- secutive victorles to an end. unusual | “Sweetheart” No Nice Grid Rival ALLAS, Tex., October 7 (#).— Imagine if you can a foot ball battle between “Roughhouse” Riley and “Scrapiron” Hammon on one side and “Sweetie” Davis on the other. On names alonc. the first two would be heavy favorites. How the opponents actually stack up will be known November 17 when the Southern Methodist Mustangs tangle with the Texas Aggles in a Southwest_Conference game. James Riley, tackle for the S. M. U. outfit. weighs 199 pounds and is noted, as might be suspected, for his aggressive style of blay. Marion Hammon, his running mate, weighs 198 and is sometimes called “Scat- terbolt” instead of *‘Scrapiron.” W. E. Davis, 170-pound Aggie backfield star with plenty of drive, got his “Sweetie” nickname by plow- ing through conference lines with the cheery warning, “Here I come, sweethearts!” GALLAUDET'S TEAM PROMISES BATILE |C. U. Had Better Watch Out, | Andy Mack Says, Despite Men’s Inexperience. Dutch Bergman thinks he has enough material in his second | string to beat us, he'd better | watch out. | “True, Bilbo Monaghan is the only really experlenced player we have, but | our fellahs have plenty of fight, which | will help us a whole lot. | _ “We're not beaten until the referee’s whistle pipes for the end of the game.” That's what Andy Mack, energetic and popular little impresario of Gallau- det, and chauffeur of that ancient fliv- ver, Bounding Betty thinks about the game Friday afternoon between the Kendall Greeners and Catholic Uni- versity at Brookland. Undismayed by the beating kanded it in its opening game last Saturday by | Loyola at Baltimore, its worst since 1927, when it was drubbed by Temple, | 62 to 0, Gallaudet is diggin’ in. The | Kendall Greeners are determined to ‘zlv]: their level best against the Cardi- nals. H Because of the inexperience of its | squad, however, Gallaudet admittedly is | looking to the games ahead with pes- | simism. Perhaps the chief worry of Coach Teddy Hughes is the backfleld. With | the redoubtable Ringle and capable | Zleske gone, the well liked little mentor | has a herculean task to rebuild this de- | partment. Lack of speed is one of the biggest handicaps. Travis, one of the best quarter milers in school, has been added to the backfield in the hope of i adding some zip to it, ¢but he's really | too light to help much, | Gabby Street, Cardinal manager, was in service in both the Spanish-Ameri- can_and World Wars, U [ | | VACUUM At All Dealers! / PACKED UNION FOR GREAT GAME Mills’ Team Much Improved Over Last Year—Terps Clutching Pigskin. BY H. C. BYRD. EORGETOWN seems to ‘ ; stand pretty close to an even, if not absolutely even, chance to beat New York University Saturday in the first of four trips it is to take to meet some of the strongess elevens in the country. The Blue and Gray is getting set to play one of the great games of its long foot ball history, and it it does not re- turn to Washington with the long end of the score it will be because New York University plays better |} foot ball than it has shown in any of its previous contests with the !local school. Just where this “fear” that is being evpressed about the New York Univer- sity team comes from is hard to un- derstand. As a matter of fact, in the last three years the Blue and Gray has won twice and lost once, but in these three years New York University has scored only 2 points, obtained last Fall on a safety. Three yfln ago George- town was victor by 14 to 0, two years ago it won by 7 to 0 and last year lost by 2 to 0. In other words, in three years of play the total results of the New York U. offense is just two, about as near nothing in the way of foot ball scoring as could be. In some ways Georgetown did not particularly please Coach Mills ‘week, but actually it played great foot ball. Western Maryland has a better team than it turned out last year, and Georgetown's followers may rest as- sured that the margin of difference be- last | offense that is tween their 10-to-0 defeat of last sea- son and their decisive victory this lies in the margin of improvement of Georgetown over its 1930 strength. New York University also is stronger now than it was a year ago, but it is doubtful if it is as much stronger as Georgetown is. And & year ago George- town Ehyed Just as well as N. Y. U. did. it would seem to give the Blue and Gray just a bit of a margin, but, of course, in that kind of a comparison unknown fallacies may exist. At the worst, though, it is hard to form any other opinion than that Georgetown has an even chance to take the meas- ure of the Gotham eleven. IVERSITY OF MARYLAND has never won from Navy in foot ball. Of course, that is hardly a fair psychological inference, as far as the Navy is concerned, as Maryland has played Navy only once since it became & university and since it developed into an institution of over 3,000 students instead cf 300. So perhaps to all in- tents and purposes it would be better to say that the two schools have met only once, last year. Then they were just about as evenly matched as two foot ball teams could be, and, after the seccnd play of the game, on which Kirn made his 65-yard aun for a touchdown, they see-sawed up and down the fleld, first one team then the other having an advantage. ‘That game at Annapolis last season was one of the great games of the year, and the outlcok now is that it will_come pretty close to being duplicated Satur- lay. Coitly fumbling has almost ruined two games for Maryland, although both were pulled out on the right side of the ledger. Maryland knows that Navy | players will be seeking in varicus ways to make that tendency to fumble even more pronounced, and it is a condition that Maryland knows it must remedy at all costs. Both Maryland and Navy use an open style of play, interspersed with quick breaks and twisters that make for the most sensational kind of foot ball. Both are ground-gaining elevens, and both employ about every known kind of tactics to break down an opposing de- fense. Navy is frankly an exponent of the Notre Dame system, with “Rip” Miller, head coach, teaching exactly the kind of offense that Rockne de- veloped. Maryland has worked out an almost peculiar to it- self, although it represents, generally speaking, the same sound foot ball that is employed almost everywhere. after all, that is about what the Notre Dame system represents, too. ICHEDULING of another Army-Navy game this Fall for charity prob- ably means the resumption of ath- letic relationships between the two service institutions. They played last Fall and they are to play again this Fall and probably will again next Fall. Only one gflc-l development can come from sthat. No doubt everybody is rather anxious to see Army and Navy resume general athletic relationships, and that is just what is likely to de- velop from the charity gridiron games. The Army-Navy games are the most colorful in the East and undoubtedly are generally looked forward to with guur interest than people look ahead any other. Navy never wanted to break with the Army in the first place, and Army never wanted to break with Navy. However, both have adopted certain positions and neither has felt that it could recede from that pesition without loss of prestige and forfeiture of what it considered to be its rightful stand. Nearer and nearer, though, the compro- mise is coming, and before long it may be reached. CATHOL!C UNIVERSITY is spend- ing a good deal of time this week in bullding up its forward pass de- fense. The Brooklanders are not at all satisfied with the way they have been functioning in this respect, and, while they do not take the Gallaudet game very seriously, are looking ahead with a good deal of interest to their contest with North Carolina State. And they know that in that game they must be able to break up passes or take a whipping. It would be a great t{en.her in C. U.s cap if it could | take the measure of the Raleigh eleven. EORGE WASHINGTON expects to | beat Boston University Saturday. ‘The Boston school, aithough og’e of the largest in the country, seldom has had good athletic teams. How- ever, this Fall it changed completely its whole system of athletics and plans to build up intramural sports and inter- collegiate teams so that both may be in keeping with the university's stand- ards in other lines. If that process of rebuilding, or rather bullding, has gone very far, then the Colonials may have more trouble than they expect, but they ought to win, to say the least. Boston University is a Methodist in- stitution, with ‘approximately 15,000 students, notwithstanding that in this section it fs regarded as a rather small | hardly can expect to accomplish much | place. American University and Gallaudet are not looking forward to their games Jobless Relief In New York By the Assoclated Press. HE echo of clinking dollars for the unemployed stirred by the charging foot ball teams of Annapolis and West Point again will be heard this year. ‘The two service teams have agreed to meet, probably December 12, with all receipts going to alleviate dis- tress of the jobless. Either New York, Philadelphia or Chicago will get the game, with the Gotham Polo Grounds holding the most votes now. Army and Navy ofii" “!s. who were asked for the benefit performances by the Salvation Army, agreed to it yesterday. ‘The Salvation Army sponsored last year’s contest in New York, which netted $400,000 for the unemployed and a 6-to-0 victory for y. ‘That was the first meeting of the two institutions on the gridiron since they severed relations four vears ago after differences over eligibility requirements. These diffi- culties will again be left unsettled as ::ey march on the field in Decem- T. Officials of the Navy are under- stood to favor Franklin Field, Phila- delphia. The Navy's last game is to be there December 5 egainst the University of Pennsylvania. The size of the Polo Grounds in New York, however, was considered formidable factor. Rooters for | Chicago and Soldier's Field had the | support of Admiral Willlam V. Pratt, | chief of Naval Operati-ns. From the hills of the Hudson there this week with any confidence, except to resolve to do the best they can under adverse circumstances. The former |1s likely to meet defeat at the hands of Hampden-Sidney and the Ilatter against the Catholic U. eleven. The Catholic U.-Gallaudet game is to be played at 8 o'clock Friday night, at the Griffith Stadium. Army and Navy Clash to Aid May Be Held on December 12 was word West Point looked upon 12 as the only a date, since the 7_has another game November 28. No intimation came from there, however, of where the soldiers want to fight. GONZAGA ELEVENS BUSY lVanlty Plays Business—Light- ‘weights Meet Episcopal. | Gonzaga foot ballers are busy these id:yu. ‘Today the Purple was to meet | the Business eleven in Gonzaga Sta- | dium at 3:30 o'clock and tomorrow the Gonzaga lightweights will go over to | Alexandria to face the Episcopal High little fellows. | ,Gonzaga was an easy victor over ‘Western in its opener last week. TIP FOR FISHERMEN. 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