Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1931, Page 47

SPORTS. 70 OPPOSE V.M. 1. IN GRIDIRON CLASH Game Will Be Colorful, With Entire Corps of Cadets to Be in Attendance. BY H. C. BYRD. UNLVERSITY OF VIRGINIA dedicates its new stadium Thursday, and is planning an elaborate program in eclebration thereof. Virginia Mili- tary Institute will be its foot ball opponent for the afternoon, but other activities are fairly certain to hold almost as big a place in the day’s arrangements. The stadium, as 1t will be opened Thursday, seats 21,000 persons. It is constructed along the same lines as most modern foot ball structures, hav- ing oval stands on each side of the field. At the top of one side is the box for the use of the president of the university and at the top of the other the press box. Some time in the near future, a small field house, to be used for dressing rooms for teams, is to be erected. And, as soon as the pressure for seats makes it necessary, the other end of the field will be in- closed with a stand, to complete the horseshoe. The stadium is a beauti- ful structure now, in & beautiful set- ting, but on its final completion it is retty sure to be one of the most at- ctive, if mot the most attractive, of its kind in America. Virginia Military Institute is likely to provide plenty of color for the ded- ication game. The corps of cadets will visit_Charlottesville and carry with it all the panoply and pomp of a fine military organization. — | HE game itself is sure to be -attrac- tive, t00. Until very recent years Virginia Military Institute was never a very serious opponent for Vir-| ginia, although it always put up good games. However, in the last five years the Charlottesville institution has ha plenty of difficulty with the one that makes its home in Lexington. Year be- fore last V. M. 1. beat Virginia with comparative ease, but last Fall Virginia won by two touchdowns. This year V. M. I does not seem to be as strong as it was two years ago, but at that prob- ably will give Virginia a great battle, It always has, even when it has seemed to be outclassed. Last season, when V. M. I had its weakest team in years, it was only defeated by great individual work on the part of Thomas, this year's Virginia captain. Both elevens have played the same number of games this season, and both have received setbacks from smaller schools, yet both have played good foot ball. Virginia started by whipping Roanoke College easily by three touch- downs. V, M. I. began by barely beat- ing out Hampden-Sydney. Then the next Saturday both schools received jolts from small opponents, Virginia being tied by Randolph-Macon and V. M. I. whipped by Richmond. The fol- lowing week Virginia lost to Maryland by one point in a great game, and V. M. I. was defeated by Duke by two touchdowns. Last Saturday Virginia went_down _before Sewanee by 3 to 0 and V. M. 1. was tied by Citadel. UT, irrespective of what their records for the season are, both teams will play good foot ball Thursday. Both are well coached and both will be im- bued with a spirit which one finds in gridiron contests only on such occasions as_this. Not only will the foot ball game be attractive, but alumni of the university will go to Charlottesville for a general good time, as well as to take pride in the opening of a new stadium. Old classmates will get together to exchange reminiscences, all old letter men of the university are to be invited guests and, following the game, there are to be house parties at the fraternities, and after that all are to get together at the country club for a big dance. From a view of athletics, it should be the biggest day in the history of the university. EORGE WASHINGTON and Mary- land play‘ big home games this week, with Catholic University idle and Georgetown and Gallaudet on for- eign flelds. American University meets High Point College here. The George ‘Washington and Maryland games will find four teams on the field with neither of them defeated. The Colonials have played three games and won them all, two by big scores. Tulsa University, which it is to meet, also has a clear record, with one victory over Texas Christian University, which last year had a remarkably good record. Mary- land has played three games and been victor in all and Kentucky has played two and won both by wide margin Kentucky's main achievement this ses son is its 45-to-0 defeat of Washing- ton and Lee. Both these games should be worth while. George Washington has & group of young men well able to look after their own interests, and Coach Pixlee expects them to be at their best Satur- day. Tulsa University has one of those teams that, while it does not come from one of the better known universities, is nevertheless a good foot ball team, one that George Washington or any other school will find hard to beat. Kentucky usually stands about on a par with Tennessee and the other strong elevens in that section, and Maryland has no illusions as to what it will meet. Mary- land fully expects Kentucky to be stronger than Navy, which is about all that need be said about that. Coach Young of American Univer- sity is hoping against fiope that he can whip his men into shape to make the kind of showing he wants to make|Of the Rockrie Memorial Association. sgainst High Point. Scarcity of ex- genenced material is handicapping ‘oung in his efforts to put American University on the foot ball map. EORGETOWN, under ordinary cir- cumstances, should whip Duquesne University without difficulty, but this week, with a badly crippled team, it certainly has no reason to feel over- confident. The Blue and Gray has several of its players on the shelf with injuries from which there is very little chance they will recover before Sat- urday. Especially is this true of Brad- ley, fine sophomore halfback, who has a broken collar bone. Coach Mills is spending his time this -week getting his men back in good physical condi- tion more than in attempting to develop anything new in the way of tactics. The game with Duquesne is to be played Friday night, and the Blue and Gray eleven will leave here Thursday eve- mgem(.mm ek s cnousn o or much against the Marines af gmnfico, where it plays Saturday. othing the Kendall Greeners have shown so far indicates anything other than that they are likely to suffer another defeat by a big margin. HE North Carolina-Georgia game at Chapel Hill should take prece- dence over the other contests south of here in the South Atlantic section. The Tarhecls have been play- ing good foot ball but hardly as good 8s Georgla. They have nothing back of them as brilliant as the defeat handed Yale last week. North Carolina’s hardest game was with Van- derbilt, which it lost, 13 to 0. In its diffieult contest it tied Florida, s Tiemia Polvie e ath echnic - WDy 40 %0 © and ¥ale by 26 10 % d | has not been much since 1924, chiefly By the Associated Press. HICAGO, October 13.— Capt. Alble Booth and his men of ( : Yale will be the first team to have & look at Amos Alonzo | Stagg's latest contribution to foot ball when they meet in Stagg Field next Saturday. Stagg has been thinking up things to make foot ball more difficult for oppo- nents for nearly 40 years and he is hopeful that his new offense will give the Maroons & victory over his own alma mater's eleven. Chicago's success due to the fact that foot ball matefial is extremely scarce on the Midway. This season, however, the talent shapes up noticeably better, and with help from Pat Page, 8., who is drilling the line, the old man has been able to develop a team capable of holding Michigan's powerful squad to & 13-to-7 victory. Stagg's new system involves a line shift and employs the “flanker” forma- tion which worked well two years ago, especially on forward passes. He did not use it last week because of ineli- gibility of two backs, Lou Kanne and Pat Page, jr. They became una\'nflbbl(‘l after working with the regulars, leaving Stagg with insufficient time during which to prepare substitutes. Michigan’s work against the Maroons was so unsatisfactory last week that Coach Harry Kipke ordered a long of- fensive scrimmage yesterday. He also moved Bill Hewitt, a regular end, to THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €l TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1931, Plant that will be dedicated Thursday has seating capacity of 21,000. It is gift of Frederic W. Scott (in inset). Elevens of Mid-West Revise Plays and Shuffle Players For Hard Games This Week Capt. Roy Hudson's fullback position and sent Ted Petoskey, a sophomore, to Hewitt's end, and indicated the Wol- verines would line up that way against Ohio State Saturday. At Ohio, Coach Sam Willaman showed his men motion pictures of their defeat at Vanderbilt last week. The movies revealed that the Buckeye block- ing in the first two periods was too| great assistance to Vanderbilt, and a session of fundamentals followed. Purdue may have to do_without Halfback Ed Risk against Wisconsin Saturday, due to an abcess. The line is Coach Noble Kizer's other big prob- lem and yesterday's drill was devoted to the forwards. Although tied by Alabama Poly Saturday, Wisconsin's squad is actually confident of downing Purdue. Coach Thistlethwaite is work- ing on a fancy pass attack for the contest. Joe Zeller, veteran guard, and & pair of sophomore backs, Sabik and Sawicki, rejoined the Indiana squad and prob- ably will be ready to start against Iowa this week. Things were not so good at Iowa yesterday, the squad having re- turned from its disastrous invasion of Texas A. and M. underweight and weary from sweltering Texas weather. Northwestern and Notre Dame did not work yesterday. The Wildcats at- tended the funeral of Trainer King Brady, leaving drills for the California (Southern branch) to open today. The Irish were given a rest and also were to begin preparation for Drake today. Illinois yesterday started polishing its offensive for the Michigan battle & week from Saturday. |MILLER IS PLEASED WITH NAVY SHOWING Kirn Rehurts Ankle and Thompson Injured in Maryland Tilt—O0ld Liners Are Praised. ANNAPOLIS, Md., October 13.—Navy lost the services of F. C. Thompson, right guard of the varsity eleven, in Saturday’s rough game with Maryland, it was learned lay from head coach “Rip” Miller. The ard, who col- lapsed on the fleld and who still is in the Naval Hospital in Washington, in- Jured vital muscles, and that he will be ready in time for the late game is the hope at the present time. Reedy will take Thompson's place against Dela- | ware this Saturday. Bullet Lou Kirn, ace of the backfield, reinjured his bad ankle Saturday, too. Kirn may not be able to face Prince- ton on October 24, Miller fears. Yesterday practice for Midshipmen consisted of scrimmage for the third and fourth stringers. 'The first and second teams only warmed up, except the quarterbacks, who had a mental scrimmage with the mentors. Looking back over the Maryland game, Coach Miller said he was satis- fied with the showing of the team. “Youth and inexperience lost the game for us,” Miller said. Continuing, he said: “The Maryland team is a lot bet- ter than most people realize. It is high class. “I think the Navy team performed as well as could be expected at this stage of the season. The boys fought hard and but for one slip-up might have obtained a tie,” Miller said. SPECIAL MOVIE SHOW FOR ROCKNE PROJECT D. C. Committee of Memorial Body to Sponsor Notre Dame Film Exhibition Here. starting at 11 o'clock, under auspices of the District of Columbia Committee All proceeds wiil go toward construction of the $1,000,000 memorial for Knute Rockne at South Bend, Ind. Members of the Indiana congres- sional delegation: and other admirers of the late Notre Dame coach will at- tend the presentation. Dr. James A. Flynn is chairman of the District of Columbia Committee, other members being George O. Vass, cashier of Riggs National Bank, treas- urer; James D. Hayes, Victor S. Mersch, Dr. Raymond T. Holden, Rev. Francis McBride, James E. Colliflower, Fred J. Rice and L. T. Armelin. ST. ANTHONY'S PREPARES Gridders Have Four Games, Byrne and Cannon Coaching. 8t. Anthony's High School gridders are energetically preparing for games with the reserve teams at Gonzaga, St. John’s, Business and Tech. Byrne and Cannon, formerly of Holy Cross and Notre Dame, respectively, ere coaching the St. Anthony's squad. North Carolina, though, in holding Vanderbilt to two touchdowns did something that Ohio State could not do, and Georgia will get a real battle. As a matter of fact, Georgia may get something of a surprise, though every- thing indicates otherwise. Other games for South Atlantic schools will be Virginia Polytechnic In- stitute-William and Mary at Rich- mond, Washington and Lee-West Vir- ginia at Charleston, Duke and Davidson Wake Forest at Raleigh. A special midnight showing of the | & |film “The Spirit of Notre Dame” will | be given at the Rialto Theater Friday, | $2h) mentioned contest is Thursday as & feature of fair w Wants Army-Navy Clash in Chicago By the Associated Press. N Army and Navy foot ball game in Chicago in connection with the Centennial Exposition, in October, 1933, is being sought by Representative Britten of Illinois. ‘The game would be played on Sol- dier Fleld, where Army and Navy played a tle game of 21 to 21 in 1926 before 110,000. Britten has discussed the prospec- tive game with Secretary of the Navy Adams and Rear Admiral Hart, superintendent of Annapolis. He will see Secretary of War Hurley on his return here next week. EMERSON IS ROUTED BY INVADING ELEVEN| National Farm School From Penn- sylvania Scores by 38 to 0 Over Green Team. Emerson’s green foot ball team ab- sorbed a 38-0 trimming yesterday, bow- ing to National Farm School of Doyles- town, Pa., in Griffith Stadium. Showing a smashing attack the boys from the Keystone State scored a touch- down in the first perlod, added two more each in the second and third and their final in the fourth. Meanwhile Emerson found the Farm School line unylelding. It was able to count just one first down, which it reg- istered scon after the opening kick-off, when, with Buscher and Raum carrying the ball, it got to the 35-yard line, its nearest approach to the Farm School oal. . At this stage Emerson fumbled the ball and the visitors recovered. After that the lafter had the oval most of the time, Caplin, visiting quarterback, furnished the most spectacular play when he snared a kick and ran through the en- tire Emerson team for 50 yards to a touchdown. Nat. Farm (38). Emerson (0). Posttion. L.E. Harman National Emerson 0 Touchdowns—Harman _(2), Caplin, Waldman. Points downs—Vandernoot (2, placements). stitutions: National Farm—Klein for Har- man, Kirschebaum for Lazarow, Portnoy for Cohn, Hummell for A‘rma!ronl. Referee— Mr. O'Meara (Gonz: IS VICTOR 12 13 738 0°0 0—0 Edleman (2), after HYATTSVILLE Scores Over Takoma-Silver Spring |APACHES GET READY | against Irviewttons of Baltimore with orb | Edna Nolan is the girls’ dodge ball and v | basket ball coach. Downed for Year Loss by German HICAGO, October 13 (#)—Pat Page, jr., son of the Universit) of Chicago's assistant foot hlyl ('fill:.h'.'l'fll h'ze 'g walt at least a year before attempting to add to the family gridiron fame. Pat, sT., was one of 'S it- est athletes, and son Pat h played signs of doing as well, only to run afoul scholastic troubles. He fumbled a German examination last week, and university rules prohibit more than one try, leaving the youngster to postpone his bid. He will remain in school. FOR CELTIC CONTEST Suffer Only Minor Injuries in Tle ‘With Irvingtons—Other Squads Also Active. Coming through their opening 0-0 South Atlantic Foot Ball League game only a few minor injuries, Apaches, District semi-pro foot ball champs, to- night will begin preparation for their league engagement with St. Mary's Celtics Sunday in Grifith Stadium. Tonight's drill for the Little Indians will be held at Seventeenth and B streets, starting at 7:30 o'clock. Stung by their defeat at the hands of the Palace eleven Sunday in the Capi- City League 150-pound loop, Brent- wood Hawks are planning a stiff drill tonight at 7:30 o'clock at Seventeenth street and Constitution avenue. ‘Washington Robins grid team has changed its name to Notre Dame Preps. Members of the Northern Red Bird squad are to report in full uniform to- night at Seventeenth and B streets at 7:30 o'clock. A drill for Dixle Pigs is slated tonight on the Seat Pleasant grid at 8 o'clock. Georgetown Prep Midgets downed St. Martin’s Midgets, 13 to 2, at Garrett Park. Weller and Spauding scored the winners' touchdowns. Kirby played well for the losers. Griffith-Blue Coals, formerly the Wolverines, will work tonight at Vir- ginia Avenue Playground at 7 o'clock. A forward pass from Sugrue to Ni- iand gave K. of C. Boys' Club 85- pounders & 6-to-0 win over Petworth | Flashes on the Tidal Basin Field. Northern Preps will gather tonight at | 8 o'clock at the home of Manager Ted | Otte and will drill tomorrow and Fri- | day nights. | A practice for Meridian gridders is carded tonight at Seventeenth street and Constitution avenue at 7:30 o'clock. On another fleld there, at the same :iur?l’ the Federal 135-pounders will Brookland A. C. squad will be sent through its paces tonight at 7:30 o'clock at Michigan avenue and Perry street northeast. A drill for the Mercury 135-pounders is slated tonight at 7 o'clock Four- and-a-half and B streets southwest. SCHOOL ATHLETES ELECT Mount Rainier High Picks Officers of Association. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., October 13.— | Foster Mathias, soccer, basket ball and base ball player at Mount Rainier High School, has been elected president of the school's Athletic Association, with Miles Timko, who is on the soccer and basket ball teams, vice prcsident and Phil Ziegler, basket ball player, treasurer. Perry Wilkinson, a member of the faculty, is the school’s athletic director and coaches all three boys' teams. Mabel Barnes tutors the girls’ fleld ball and volley ball teams and Mrs. GEORGIA IS RATED NEAR NOTRE DAME Closely Approaches Rockne Conception of Offense, Writer Holds. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, October 13.— Georgia has come nearer to the Knute Rockne con- ception of offense, which holds that every play is a poten- tial touchdown play, than any eleven, aside from Notre Dame, that the writer has ever seen. Harry Mehre, the coach, has done a splendid job with the Athens outfit, not only in a manual way, but in infusing the eleven with a unifying spirit. Seldom, indeed, does one get such an impression as the spectators at the Yale bowl received when the Georgia first team sprang into the game at the be- ginning of the second period. One could both see and feel the snap and drive of those eleven men. It was pre- cisely as though a length of copper cable been made alive by the sud- den introduction of high voltage. ‘This Notre Dame system of attack took a beating in important quarters on Saturday. The Army_convincingly defeated Michigan State, Maryland de- feated the Navy and Washington was swamped by Oregon, which used Dr. Spears’ well known line and backfield shift—probably the closest analogy to the old Minnesota shift now being played. And Northwestern broke Notre Dame's long winning streak of 20 games by holding the Irish to a tie. But in this case a torrential rain and a water-soaked gridiron prevented the turning in of valuable information con- cerning the attack of either of these two great teams. Is Difficult Task. But irrespective of the showing of the standard Notre Dame offense throughout the country last week the fact remains—and QGeorgia demon- strated this—that when the footing is good and worthy material has been suc- cessfully taught, no finer method of attack exists. Fundamentally it is easy to teach and easy to learn, but when it comes to the production of results under high pressure—that is to say, against the powerful and discerning de- fense of a major oppcnent—the task becomes much more difficult. Just analyze the so-called perfect play—the play, by the way, in which Homer Key was shaken loose against Yale on Saturday—in respect tc its blocking assignments. The No. 1 back hits the defensive end in, and the No. 3 back, coming through. hits him a flash of a second later. That defensive end is never permitted to come into the backfield. The No. 1 back, having nicked the end, goes to the left half- back with but a second's delay. The No. 3 back, having also nicked the ill- fated end, hurries into the backfleld. The end, often single-handed, knocks off the defensive tackle. The No. 2 back, with the end showing ability to care for the tackle, shoots into the backfield and works on the fullback, thus giving the ball carrier, who is running inside or outside end, three interferers ahead of him to take care of the secondary. The guards swing |out and around, cleaning up on the defensive tackle or the fullback, or the center, if he is roving, as seems neces- ary. When all this clicks you get the “perfect play.” But it requires & coach with a genius for precise in- struction to impart it as Rockne im- parted it and it requires disciplined men of alert mentality and physical speed and strength to demonstrate it on the field. All of which, therefore, rebounds to the credit of Harry Mehre and fthe Georgians who have sat at eet. Michigan State was at a disadvan- tay ainst West Point, inasmuch as Under the direction of Stella Payne of the faculty, an intra-mural tennis tournament is planned next week at the school. — GRIDIRON RESULTS. Fordham, 20; Boston College, 0. St. John's (Brooklyn), 6; Niagara, 6. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN’S, 7th & F REDUCED RATE in High School Soccer Tilt. HYATTSVILLE, Md, October 13.— Hyattsville Hfgh School's soccer team downed Takoma-Silver Spring High's 0.0, yesterday afternoon in Magruder Park here. The home team held the whip hand from the outset and at the half was in front, 4 to 0. Blaine Calhoun, inside right, two goals and Jimmy Dwiggins, center halfback, and Warren Kidwell, center forward, each counted one. It was the Hyattsville team’s final game before its match with Laurel High here Friday in the first test in the Prince Georges County championship serles for Hyattsville. LAUREL RACES October 5 to October 31 INCLUSIVE ta 12:15 and 12:40 P.M. FIRST RACE at 1:45 P.M. General Admission $1.50 to Laurel Races Effective Wednesday, Oct. 14 8 00 Rownd Trip Good only on Special Race Trains leav- ing Washington 12:15 P. M. and 12:40 P. M. Returning Trains same day. one Special Race Go by train. Ride in clean, comfortsble coaches and avoid highway congestion. BALTIMORE & OHIO the Cadets know more about defending against the deceptions, all the shifts and intricacles of the Notre Dame at- tack than any other team in the coun- t Knowing pretty well what is com- ing and where it is coming from, the defenders are seldom sucked from the places where they should be., It seems to take the “perfect’ play” as worked by Notre Dame herself to bother the Cadets very seriously and even then, even when the Irish put it over on the Army, the Cadet defense is not fooled; it is just nipped out of the picture by the best blocking that exists. Harry Michigan State is the best back field man he ever saw. He has Cagle's action, but Harry says he is better than Red ever was. TO RACE FOR CHARITY. CHICAGO, October 13 ().—A char- |1ty racing program which is expected to add about $50,000 to Gov. Emmer- son's unemployment relief furd will be held at Hawthorne October 22. SPORTS,’ D. C. ARCHERS SCORE Mrs. Taylor and Thompson Do Well in Pennsylvania Events. Ross Thompson and Mrs. Josephine ‘Taylor of the Potomac Archers of this city are recelving congratulations upon their victories in the men’s and wom- en’s classes in the annual Pennsylvania State championship archery tourna- ment, held over the week end at Avon- e. Wilson says that Monnett of | dal ‘Thompson, to lead the men'’s class, scored 256 at 100 yards, which is only a few points below the record for the National Archery Assoclation. Mrs. Taylor won the women's meet by a comfortable margin. Thompson has been in the archery game only a little more than a year. It appears that he will be a dangerous contender for the national title if he maintains his present &m. Several other members of Potomac Archers were among the high scorers. AT HOME IN BIG 10 Any Pest-Season Foot Ball Will Be for Conference ' : Elevens Only. By the Assoclated Press. HICAGO, October 13.—Any post-season charity foot ball games played by Western Cone ference teams this season will be strictly conference games. Following a flood of suggestions and request for charity games with none conference teams, Maj. John L. Grife fith, Big Ten commissioner of athe decided to suspend its rule limiting teams to elght games each season, to make possible charity contests between Big Ten teams on November 28. When this was announced last week, many requests were sent to his office that the season be extended as much as four weeks to play games with none conference teams in all sections of the country. ‘The committee, he said, agreed only to extend the length of the season one week and specifically limited the poste season games to such Big Ten teams as are available at that time. It has been indicated that should two teams go through the season une defeated, they would be matched fop a title game on November 28, and tha$ other games might be arranged bee tween teams of the same comparative strength. TAKES OUTBOARD HONORS. OAKLAND, Calif,, October 13 (#).— G. Mulford Scull, Atlantic City motore boat_driver, won' the coveted Lorimer Trophy yesterday in the final event of the three-day national outboard chame pionship races on Lake Merritt. Scull, driving Shooting Star III, was firsk with 742 points. 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