Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1931, Page 45

he Evening Slaf, [ , WASHINGTON, D. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, C 1931. PAGE D-—1 Virginia’s Ambition Whetted by Adversity : “Gloom” Hardell Predicts Tech Win CAVALIERS UNAWED CENTRAL LEADERS MUM ON BIG GAME I e . i g | thing like even terms with igate. | End of McKinley Champion- | Vanderbilt makes another trip to Georgia this week, this time to play ship Monopoly Would Be Aid to Grid Series. —By TOM DOERER on N. Y. U. two or three years ago. NOTHER intersectional game takes iace at Hamilton, N. Y., with Mis- when it came Bast and lipped one over | SH[RIUAN HUN“RED ! ST. ALBANS DISPLAYS SMARTLY-TUTORED ELEVEN. { ’ NED SHIPPEN - AN EXPERIENCED TACKLE WHO 157 HAVING A GOOD YEAR. .cene Cadets Return to Foot Ball Duty After Impressive Burial of Comrade. Hoyas, Cards and Colonials Leave Teday for Tough Grid" Battles. Georgia Tech at Atlanta. Last Satur- measure of the Atlanta school, as held Georgia to & Jow score despite the fact it had four backs on the bench S § T with injuries. BY H. C. BYRD. The other big games in the Southern Conference are between Florida and VmOl‘N’lA not only is not dis- | Georgia, Kentucky and Alabama and BY EDWARD A. FULLER, JR. E'VE got the cham- plonship and we are not going to give it up. Tech is confident of beating Central tomorrow. Not overconfident, but we expect to win.” It's Hap Hardell, McKinley coach, doing the broadcasting to- day, thank you, and, incidentally, it'’s a pretty large statement for By the Associated Press. POINT, N. Y. October 29.—Army turned its back on tragedy today, tried to forget for the moment the il Eeits ul | Ch . Pi k, f!r:h grave of Cadet Richard Brinsley on until it takes place among | Sheridan, jr., and thought only of the the best in the East and South,} aSIng lgs 1ns code, “carry on.” according to Jimmy Driver, direc-| On the bulletin boards was the tor of athletics, who stopped here| BLACKSBURG, Va, October 29 |official announcement: “Army begins last night on his way to Cam_il}?v.vflwu for a home-coming day vic- 'I:l“ intensive practice for the foot bridge, where Virginia meets Har- | 107y Saturday over Maryland Rose at €ame Saturday with Colorado couraged over the poor“:"m’l‘“;d Polytechnic Institute and showing of its foot ball| E team, but will keep driving vard Saturday. The Charlottes-| Vrinia Poly with the return of the | College. ville institution is somewhat dis-! appointed over results sa far this | season, but its morale is unbroken and it is looking for better things, and will continue to build until it attains them. “You would naturally think that our | team should be discouraged and our students disgusted over our poor show- ing this Fall, but the opposite s true. Our team, instead of being discouraged, | s n good shape mentally and has a | high morale. Our students are looking | at the present season as the first real | step in the process of building, and have the vision to see in coming years | the successes they feel Virginia should have. “Our squad is showing remarkable courage. We have been through some games that were enough to make the strongest men falter, but so far as I can see it has affected our squad only in one way—to make them even more de- | termined ultimately to come through. MM p'omnmflb I believe that eventually | “Our men are going up to Cambridge to face Harvard with a good deal of eager ticipation, notwithstanding their :rflf of the last three wteklw ‘They that they have not meas- | ured up to the standard that they them- | selves believe they are capable of, and are anxious for the opportunity agiinst & big school of the Noith. No one can | tell what they will accomplish against Harvard, but’ their spirit is gooa and they ace no. mieclea in the ieast by thoir previous losses. | IRGINIA meets Harvard and Co- lumbia this Saturday and next, which is enough for any team to tackle on consecutive week ends. The G 18 one of the strongest of this ye elevens And Columbia does not scem to be far behind, if it is behind | at all. It is not known whether Vir- inia will meet Harvard again next Fall, | ut it does have another contest listed | ‘with Columbias- It is more than possible that Vir- | ginia's schedule of the next few years| will be much more ambitious than for | the last several seasons, according to Driver. And the fact that this harder schedulé is contemplated is sufficient to indicate that V! ia has no thought of turning back and has every confi- fi!!re in the future lnd foot ball, even games during pres- ent mmv.pm'fhul is a strong possi- bility that Vi may branch out and play not only two Northern schools but also some big Middle Western eleven, besides the Southern schools it desires 10 meet. Driver feels that Vir- ginia should not confine its schedule to the South, but that it is so representa- tive of the South as a whole that it ought to meet schools of other sections. | ‘Whatever may be the result of Vir- ginia's present schedule, there is too much back of the university for it to | continye in the doldrums. Driver and his aides are mapping out a policy that in the end means big things in ath- letics and in the final analysis should be successful. ATHOLIC TUNIVERSITY, ‘Washington and Georgetown leave | today on long trips. The Brook- | Janders are the shortest jour- | ney, being due to play at Pittsburgh to- morrow ht. George Washington goes to Towa Oity and Georgetown to Boston Maryland, which also plays away again this week, does not leave until tomorrow night, when it makes the jump to Blacksburg, Va. Against Duquesne, Catholic U. is up against a strong op- ponent, with an outside chance to w At Boston College, Georgetown seems be at least an even bet. George Wash- ington seems due to get the short e; at Jowa University, and Maryland cer- tainly has no better than an ever chance against Virginia Polytechnic Institute. RINCETON meets another strong eleven this week and will be lucky to get off with a close score. This 15 said with all due respect for the fact that in this day of modern foot ball upsets it s perfectly possible for Prince- ton to win, as strong as Michigan is A victory over the Wolverines would do much to raise the flagging fort the Tiger eleven. and the fact that st 8 vic make Geor ARTMOUTH is New Haven f Dark Blue tween Dartmouth bell fleld s on tionships of the teams may s-em to b are good enough to t In a'l the hstory of Dartmouth v never won is about the closest far es the actu The fates have ard pass on Yal v a minute left to Yale back grabded the bal a touchdown that sent Dartmouth back to Hanover defeated. Dartmouth has had better chances in some past sea- sons than it seems to have this week. NE of the really good games of the Eastern season is likely to take place between Cornell and Columbia. Cornell has & much better eleven than usual, which means that Cornell is good, Columbia was strong enough to | ‘whip Dartmouth 19 to 0. ‘This probably yed in recent ‘The Penn State-Pittsburgh _game Thanksgiving day fixture. place this week. Penn State has not proved such a good mat-h for the Smoky City eléven in recent years. University of Oregon comes East o zmm with New \;.u:h:mmn and Minnesota {ioes not seem o veterans, Swart, guard; Seaman, end, and Howard. fullback. Grinus, the big tackle, was in uni- form but it was doubtful that he would be able to play as the result of injuries received in the Kentucky game. A group scrimmage and a spirited signal drill kept the Gobblers busy until dark. ANNAPOLIS, Md., October 290 (#).— “Bullet Lou” Kirn, Navy backfield ace, out practieally all year with an injury, returned to the lineup yesterday as the ‘Tars were put through the hardest practice session of the season. A stiff offensive scrimmage with stress laid on blocking wus held by the Middles, working against the scrubs ;Q\rx!w'd with West Virginia Wesleyan efense. LEXINGTON, V2, October 29 (#)— | After a long s-rimmage in the rain yes- terdav coaches said the Washington and Lee eleven w:s ready for a battle in eny kind of weather Saturday, when the Generals meet Willlam and Mary in Norfolk. The squad w:s drilled in both offen- sive and defensive plays. The freshmen took plenty of punish- ment in the scrimmage. UNIVERSITY, Va.. October 29 (#)— Rain interfered with with Virginia's foot ball practice yesterday for the first time this season. The session began vith dummy scrimmage on the defense 2g Inst plays with all the varsity squad sseing action. LEAVES LARGE ESTATE Widow lnh:r’itl H;;st‘ of Charles Webb Murphy's $3,000,000. CHICAGO, October 20 (). —An estate estimated at nearly $3.000,000 was left by Charles Webb Murphy, forfer owner of the Chicego National League base ball club, who died here lost week. His widow, Mrs. Marie Louise Murphy, ws the chief beneficiary. Half interest in Murphy's title to the Philadelphia National Lezgue Base Bail 21k wes left to Mrs. Murphy and he)f th f-ur nephews, Thomas, Joseph, Charles and Frank Murphy, jr. Big Grid Tilts This Week End LOCAL ‘Tomorrow. Teams. Catholic U. vs. Duquesne.......... Saturday. American U. vs. Shepherd College. Georgetown vs. Boston College Maryland vs. V. P. I..... George Washington vs. Tow Gallaudet vs, Penn Military College EAST. Tomorrow. Temple vs. Washington-Jefferson Saturday Navy vs. West Virginia Wesleyan Carnegie Tech vs. Notre Dame. Yale vs. Dartmouth Harvard vs. Virginia..... Cornell vs. Columbia .... Army vs. Colorado College Holy Cross vs _Brown Villanova vs. Bucknell.. ... Pennsylvania vs. Lafayette New York U. vs. Oregon Penn State vs. Pittsburgh Princeton vs. Michigan B West Virginia vs. Kensas Aggies Amberst vs. Massachuseits Aggies Bowdoin vs. Bates Boston U. vs. Rhode Isl Colgate vs. Mississippi C: Davis-Elkins vs. Georgia Rutgers vs. Delaware Swarthmore vs. Dicki Fordham vs. West Libert Lehigh vs. Muhlenberg Lovola (Baltimore) vs. Western Maryland New Hampshire vs Williams vs. Union Tufts SOUTH. Tomorrow. Simmons vs. Southwestern e vs. M Florida vs. bama I : vs Sewanee.. d v Texas A & M Mercer . o Marquete vs. Mississippi St. Louis vs. Oklahoma City Saturday. North~estern vs. Illinois Indiana vs Ohio State Chicago vs. Purdue ....... Minnesota vs. Wisconsin Michigan State vs. Syracus Missour{ vs. Nebraska .......... Kansas vs. Oklahoma A & M.... Whashington U. vs. Duke...... Detroit vs. Loyola (New Orleans). Butler vs. Wabash 5 Ohio University vs. Ohio Wesleyan Oberlin vs. Western Reserve.. Stanford vs. U. C. L. A California vs. Neveda.. Washington vs. Whitma: Cregon State vs Washington Idaho vs. Consaga.......... North Dakota vs. North Dakota State. . | South Dakota vs. South Dakota State | College of Puget Sound vs. Williamette Tempe State vs. Arizona Utah vs. Colorado Aggies team Mon! | Army has to move forward. Saturday. MIDWEST. Tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheri- | dan, father and mother of the Army | end who died of a broken neck suffered in gridiron battle with Yale, together with another son, Gerard, and a | daughter, Mrs. J. L. Herman, were on {their way back home by train to Augusta, Ga. | Elis Attend Funeral | In the Army records, across the name of “Dick” Sheridan, president of the | |second year class, honor man and| | soldier, was written: “Died of injuries | accidentally received.” ‘The corps rallled yesterday to give their comrade a military burial that for dignity, impressiveness and depth of |feeling has never been surpassed in ’Wut Point history. In full dress, | shouldering their rifles, they guarded in honor as he lay through the day in the tiny Catholic chapel on a knoll overlooking the Hudson. His Catholic comrades went to a last requiem mass with him there in the morning and in the afternoon his class- mates, the foot ball squad, relatives, of- ficers and Yale mourners, Capt. Albie Booth and Head Coach Mal Stevens, at- tended the solemn burial services in the chapel. Escort Is Majestic. ‘Then in the late afternoon the entire | corps, military band at the head beat- | ing out the measured tread of a funeral | {march, led a majestic way for him to the cemetery. | Behind the flag-draped casket, rest- | |ing on an artillery caisson drawn by | |seven horses, plodded a cavalry horse | draped in black, Sheridan's boots set sackward in the stirrups. Ahead walked | the priest in his eassock end robes, be- | hind trudged the mourners, the officers |who had been his teachers. | As dusk was falling, he was lowered into his grave as the priest prayed |again, his company fired three volleys |and the post bugler sounded “taps.” |, The cm;;s turned then and marched back in the gathering darkness down the long hill to the barracks, while the |band swung into a blithe marching tune. | Sheridan was behind them and the TEAMS. BiTS QiessLey (carrN A VERSATILE BACK ~ ALERT ON THE DEFENSE AND SWIFT, POowERFUL ON THE OFFENSE ..... BITS CALLS SIGNALS Morgantown - .Amherst Brunswick foot ball team clicked off its final practice today for an annual encounter with St. Christopher eleven tomorrow. . This annual grid combat with ‘34 the smart youngsters from Rich- UNNING to resemble a well- oiled machine, St. Alban’'s v Eaz 1500 the Albanian crew three successive . = years—is one of the important | schoolboy conflicts of the day. Coach A. R. Middleton’s Blue and White material shapes up . 58:g splendidly. It is one of the 19-0 |Smoothest - functioning scholastic ot elevens this writer has gazed upon 13| this season. It may lack pounding 0-6_'power and reckless daring in its 6-13 | plays, but in yesterday's practice . upon the school field it displayed -+ 0-40 3 series of well timed, beautifully . 13.p | fythmetic formations, and carried 0-¢ |them out perfectly. 12-0 |, Coach Middleton, " former Haverford 14-0 |backfield star and of a family of college §-7 |athletes, tells me that he is not bur- dening his players with too many plays |nor is he_using formations too com- | plicated. The Blue and White mentor |is a pupil of Coach Harman, University of Pennsylvania, which no prompts him to use the Warner system of play at St. Albans with, of course his own variaiions. . 32-0 0-23| _ St. Albans has prospered under Mid- 7-2¢ dleton’s regime, making a_satisfactory 0-14 thowing last season and winning two |of its three games played this year, "0-0 | Devitt and Georgetown Prep, and losing ~”_|the third conflict by a lone touchdown ‘9.3 to Shenandoah Valley. There is mno doubt that the Al- banians are keved up for tomerrow's .. .Abilene 13-13 .New Orleans . .Knoxville Atlanta Raleigh ... Baton Rouge . -..Greenville . ... Shreveport . ..Danville ... Milwaukee Shia St. Louis 0-21 .. .Evanston . .Bleomington Indianapolis . Athens Oberlin 20-0 . Christopher whipped 8-0 | bans team three years in a row, they 48-0 |tell me, and this is the year the boys 7-14 want to go out and start a new slate. 26-0 | With the assisiance of Burnice Jar- 14-7 man, former Episcopal Academy athlete. 6-1 ' Middleton has systematically whipped 0-21 | together an eleven which functions so 0-6 | well in practice that he can parade it 39-0 |before any grid observer and chucklé 13-6 | with pride. 7-7 |gear, somewhat { college elevens. It functions the same ordjy McGee Shines in Backfield Massachusetts Avenue Gridders Play Heads-Up Game. BY TOM DOERER.- 7-40 mond—clever enough to take over| | who has all of the bearing of a real doubt | eleven. | the St. Al- ST. ALBANS * TRIPLE OF THE MANY PROMISING: BACKS IN DISTRICT Yale or Princeton team. It is just that in appearance, a junior Tiger or Bulldog outfit. For_end berths Middleton has Page Cornwell, Bowdoin Craighill and Jim | Keeble. Each of these players is fast and experienced. Cornwell is a fleet 145-pounder, who can flash out of the line on offense to pull down a forward or rip through on defense to take out an enemy back. For his tackle situation Middleton has | Ned Shippen, a very alert youngster. | (5 A STRONG, RUNNING GUARD..-.: JIM DAVLS, center, f IS A PROMISING YOUNGSTER. BAYANE CASTLE — AN EXPERIENCED QUARTER BACK... Brown Jug Resumes Dignity Famous Grid Trophy Is Restored to Place of State After Mysterious Absence. By the Associated Press. NN ARBOR, Mich, October 29.—The University of Mich- igan-University of Minnesota foot ball wars may now started when news leaked out that 1t"'had been missing for a month. ‘There were dark rumors that a prankster had made off with the trophy when Athletic Director H. Yost admitted it had proceed. di we from its show ‘The little brown jug, symbol of tion Building. 28 years of gridiron rivalry between the two schools, was found late last night after a strenuous search which comer in the grid game, and Leach | Cracraft, a_220-pound youngster with | lots of leg power and speed. Shippen | has been playing for several years and | is swiftly reaching schoolboy peak. | St. Alban’s are running ones | and good. Bob Fletcher, whose broth- | er now plays at Harvard, and Eric | Rafter, 155-pound boy, make up a splendid pair for the difficult line berths. Fletcher is the only mew boy on the team, making Middleton's task not so difficult this vear. Jim Davis, son of Senator Davis of Penrslyvania, ~is the center man He is a lithe loungster with an alert mind and can be depended upon to take advantage of any situation that arises in his territory. In the backfield, John McGee scin- tillates as a triple threat. He can heave the leather, break away down field for a piece of intelligent broken field run- ning or kick the ball accurately. Mec- Gee, out at St. Alban’s, is rated as one of the best of the group of splendid scholastic backfield players now showing its talents in the District. But he is given a strenuous run for honors by Bayne Castle, they tell me, who plays a quarter berth. Castle is en experienced player with a lot of power on defense. Few of the enemy tear past his post for a bit of galloping. | For the fullback position there is Bits C , & strong defensive back, | whe calls signals and captains the team upon the field. Chesley is a| smart, powerful boy with a splendid | Bob Lorton is her halfback upon whom the coach can depend for a run | ficers have evolved ome of smash off-tackle. The entire lay- | sensible, out in back of the forwards is a well I have waiched trained, dependable one, and the coach | ether or a makes no effort to conceal his confi- | mce in the boys, | One of the most pleasing athletic v thietic situations at the school is the a Tech Has a Game Margin in Series g prow and had relegated it to obscurity for esthetic reasons. Now it will be restored to its ac- customed place of prominence atop a trophy case. It is too large to be inclu with other athletic prizes in the locked cases. INCE Tech and Central have been meeting on the gridiron, and they have faced every year save | one since 1902, the Gray has won | 12 and Central 11 games. There | have been five ties. In 1918 there was no game because of the influ- enza epidemic. Should Tech win it will set a rec- ord, as neither team has ever beaten the other more than three years in a row. Tech's most decisive win was by 48 to 0 in 1928 and Central's most i;nlt;shlnz victory was by 33 to 0 in Here's the Tech-Central scores in their 28 meetings: Year, Bcore. 1902. 23-6 1903. 1904. ogue. (*Open Nights) the gloomy mentor. As a rule, he would be predicting defeat. The game, the annual schoolboy grid- iron classic here, will be played in | Central Stadium, starting at 3:30 o'clock. It is expected to virtually decide the public high title. Hap makes no bones of the fact that he was thoroughly dissatisfied with the showing of the Gray against Western in Tech’s only other series game, de- spite that McKinley was a 32-0 winner. ‘Tech played poor foot ball in that game, but it has shown decided im- is y Central hn“mnm:-whu 7 cinets, 1oy an of 3 feel that the Blue has e ould stimulate interest public high foot ball since Tech's eu!.- secutive victories are come somewhat monotonous. Ny has won the title the last three seasons el g tle. addition to the Central-Tech game, two other scholastic battles of more than bef g usual interest “mmd and St, i B and Alexandria High will face on former’s grid and Landon to Severna Park, Md., to P ern THIS FLORSHEIM i popular with YOUNG MEN Looks trim and smart . . . . . short vamp French last. ... . one of FLORSHEIMS famous styles . ou0.. ‘9-1‘]0 Men’s Shops 14th at G 7th & K *3212—14th