Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1931, Page 29

® WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Foen ng Sta l ‘ Features and Classified | WASHINGTON, D. 7 0. TP JTESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 0, 1931. Only Nine More College Grid Games Here: G. W. He A PAIR OF UNRELENTING TASKMASTERS. i ' % Hoyas Have Even Chance in + Homecoming Tilt—Vandy £ Back Great Star. r BY H. C. BYRD. 1 ING FOOT BALL, as far as local colleges are con- cerned, soon will descend his throne. Crowned since the first of September as securely as any monarch ever held sway, it now 1s little more than a matter of days before his scepter Iis handed into other keeping, until another September rolls around. | Local college elevens are almost at the end of their schedules. Nearly the whole season is history and only ihe | final song j3 yet to b> sung. George- tcwn, Catholic University, Maryland | each has three games vet to be played. | George Washington and Gallaudet two | each and American University only | one. | This week Georgetown almost has the fleld to itself for its homeccming game with West Virginia. The Blue and Gray, it is true, has one competitive game, Catholic University versus St. Francis, but that as an attraction hardly can be measured with the same yardstick Georgetown has been playing West Vir- ginia as its big home game for several seasons and that probably is better established than any other game played on a local field each season. | So far Georgetown's season does not show a string of victories, but it does show a long list of desperately fought | struggles, in which a hair might have | turneg the tide in all except two. And when a team has that kind of record | it may be depended on to make a great | fight in any game in which it takes part. So, irrespective of what George- | town’s record of victories may be. the | meeting this week between the Hoyas and West Virginia should be well worth | seeing. And, what is more, Georgetown | has at least an even chance to win. | Next week Geéorgetown goes to Phila- | delphia to play Villanova, another strong | outfit. And the Saturday fcllowing that, | Novemper 28, it entertains the Univer- | sity of Detroit here. If the Blue and Gray gets its squad back in good physi- cal condition it should stand Dpretty | close to an even chance in each of these games. IN bowing out its season, Catholic University meets three schools not so | well known locally as those George- | town is to face, but comparatively just| as difficult. All C. U.’s remaining con- tests are to be played here. It meets St. Francis this week, Providence Col- lege next and Loyola on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The Brooklanders are looking forward to these games with confidence, although they realize they are going_against strong teams. Gt week, but plays Butler University of Indianapolis Friday night of next week, November 20, and winds up its season with North Dakota here on Thanks- giving day. Incidentally, this should give Washington about the best Thanks- giving day contest it has had in years. American University has only one contest left, and that is with Randolph- Macon at Ashland a week from Satur- day. It is most unlikely that it will wind up with a victory as Randolph- Macon seems to have about the best eleven in its history, and about the strongest among the small colleges in this section, except Western Maryland. Gallaudet plays St. John's Saturday at Annapolis and probably will suffer another defeat. However, it may win its last game on November 21, which is with Shepherd College. But to do that the Kendall Greeners will have to play better foot ball than they have. Maryland's three final contests are with Washington and Lee here Novem- ber 21, with Johns Hopkins, in Balti- more, on Thanksgiving day, and West- ern Maryland, at Baltimore, on Decem- ber 5. Maryland has no_ game this week, its Washington and Lee contest, which originally was scheduled for No- vember 14, having been shifted to give the Generals an_opportunity to meet Princeton. The Old Liners have about an even chance with Washington and Lee, with perhaps a shade on the Gen- erals, should have an advantage in the contest with Hopkins, and prob- ably will be on the short end of the odds against Western Maryland. All the schools have opportunities to. atone for mistakes of that part of the season already gone, and may wind up their schedules in a highly satisfactory way. Take Georgetown, for instance. 1f it can win its three remaining con- tests, and such a result is not so very ymprobable, it will have a_ good deal that is worthwhile to look back upon Give George Washington victories over { Butler and North Dakota and it will have behind it the best season it has| enjoved in a decade, and the same will | De true of Maryland if it can take | even two of three remaining struggles. its CHAP of the name of “Dixie"” Roberts, halfback at Vanderbilt, is one of the two or three best run- { ning backs the writer ever has seen.| | Tast Saturday against Maryland, with } 4 minutes of the first half left, and the | | score 12 to 7 in favor of Maryland, he ‘lflsurfl\' walked out on the field to| subsititue for Leonard. captain of the "Vandl‘rb)k team. That leisurely walk | out was about the only leisurely thing | he’ did, though, as from the moment he entered the game Vanderbilt was { the whole show Vanderbilt had the ball on its own | 20-yard line when Roberts took his lace in the backfield. Just seven plays } Jater, on six of which Roberts carried | the ball, Vanderbilt had the ball across Marvland's goal line, and the half end- ed 13 to 12 for Vanderbilt In the third quarter Roberts simply ran around, through and over the, Maryland eleven. The Old Line play- ers could not stop him at any time on any kind of a play. He left the game at the end of the third quarter, but during that third quarter ‘Vanderbilt made four touchdowns, and it was Rob- | , erts who did 95 per cent of the ground | gaining. Vanderbilt did not score again | after Roberts left the game. | ighs in the neighborhood i ,of 180 pounds, is fast, a clever dodger | and one of the hardest runners that has ever been in foot ball. Dan Mc- TROIANS TO PLAY eorge Washington has no game thisy 5 Grid Benefit Sale To Begin Saturday ALE of tickets for the foot ball game December 12, when George Washington, Georgetown and Catholic University will play the Alabama Rose Bowl team for the benefit of the District's jobless, will be started Saturday at Spalding's and Giifith Stadium. General admission will be $1, re- served seats $2 and box seats $2.50, but if purchase is made before De- cember 1 a 50-cent reduction on each seat will be allowed, the rain insur- ance premium in 'this way being given to the public. Mail orders order plus 2) cents for registration if addressed to Griffith Stadium. | Special sections have been reserved for Alabama supporters and those of the three local universities, each of which will play the famous Rose Bowl team one 20-minute game, ROSE BONL GANE Northwestern, Cornell, Tu- lane, Tennessee, Georgia May Oppose in Benefit. - By the Associated Press. ASADENA, Calif., November 10.— University of Southern Cali- fornia's Trojans, with the Pi cific Ccast Conference title al most won, have been selected to shoul- der the burden of the West in the sev- enteenth annual Rose Tournament foot ball game here January 1. While no official statement was forth- coming from the university, it was con- sidered likely that the game will be played for charity. KleinSmid id earlier in the season that the jans were e:ger to play for the beneflt of the unemployed. Selection ©f an opponent, which probably will not come until the sched- ules of the leading teams East of the Mississippi have run their course, is left entirely to the Western school. Five teams, however, stand the best chance of receiving this invitation, it was officially sadd. The five are North- western, Cornell, Tulane, Tennessee and Georgia. Should a team from the South be chosen, it will be the fifth team in the last seven years that an eleven from be- low the Mason and Dixon line has par- ticipated in the intersectional classic. In that time the Southerners have won three contests and tied the other one, leaving the coast standard bearers bar- ren of victories. But the count stands in favor of the | West with other Eastern opponents. Since Brown played Washington Staf in the first official game, back in 1916, losing, 14 to 0, the West has won six games, lost two and tied two. The Trojans must defeat Montana at Los Angeles Saturday and Washington at the same site December 5 to win the coast championship. They will finish with no less than a tie, however, if they lose one OF $he games. GRID GAME IS SHIFTED | GonsafarandiBt Fabaeite Play in| Eastern Stadium. | | Gonzaga and St. John's, arch foes, | will meet in their annual gridiron game | Friday afternoon in the Eastern High Stadium as soon after 3 o'clock as possible. | The game originally was slated for | Gonzaga Stadium. A larger crowd can | be handled at Eastern. i @i WEST POINT, N. Y., November 10 (). —Army's allotment of tickets for the Notre Dame game to be played in the Yankee Stadium November 28 has been exhausted. Applications for about 10,000 seats can‘l;ot be filled and refunds will be | made. Notre Dame's ‘allotment of seats for | 'f]x"ni game has been sold out for some | e. | | accompanied by check or money | and handling will be promptly filed ' Dr. Rufus B. Von | BASKETERS START -~ PRACTICEATC. U, | Much Material—Team Schedules 19 Contests. ASKET BALL practice was to| get under way this afternoon at Catholic University under direc- tion of Forrest Cotton, making | his debut as court coach at the Brook- 1and school Walsh, Hanley, Riley and Cunning- | ham of last season’s team have been lost by graduation, but there are avail- | able nine players each from the varsity | and freshman squads of a campaign ago. | Players from the varsity at hand are | Lou Spinelli, guard and forward; Bus Sheary, Tom Whelan and Johnny Oli- ver, forwards; Bingo Flynn, center; Ed Darowish, forward and guard, and Whitey Ambrose, Fred Guarnleri and Paul Myers, guards. Hickey, a center has given up basket ball ‘last season, | for track. Former freshmen who will strive for | berths include Bob McVean and Joe McNerny, forwards; Dick Galliher and Cy Dillon, centers, and Ed White, John Jankowski, Henry Bruder, Joe Canniz- 7aro and Ray Howe, guards. Schedule Is Attractive. Nineteen games have been booked for the Cardinal tossers, including an en- | counter with the University of Mexico | January 8 in the Brookland gym, and other attractive engagements. Mary- | Jand is the lone team of the Washing- | ton area to be met by C. U. This game | will be played at College Park Feb- ruary 3. Three New York invasions will be | made, the first opening December 11, when the Cardinals start their cam- paign against St. John's at Brooklyn. De Paul University of Chicago and | Duke are among intersectional foes to. be met at Brookland. C. U. will be handicapped in its first two games against St. John's and City | College of New York, the latter to be met December 12 in the big town, as most of the basket ball dependables are stalwarts of the foot ball squad, | which will be showing its wares against the Alabama Rose Bowl team in the | charity game at Griffith Stadium De- cember 12 The C. U. schedule: December 11—St. John's at Brooklyn, N. December 12—City College of New Yol at_New Yorl Decembe December 19 _Duke. December 22—Long ork. December 23—St. Peter's College at Jer- ity N, J gelinuary 14 15—Villanov 18— Lo: Y Tk Island U. at New niversity of Mexico, | Joseph's College ' (Phila- 8 (Baltimore). sne. Paui University (Chi- 3—Maryland at College Park. 6—Loyola 8—Bucknell. Pebruary 10—virginia at Chatlottesy February 11—V. P. I at BI f February 19—7th Regiment, t New Y tional Guard. w Yorl Pebruary 20—Manhattan at New York. . PRO ST;R OUT FOR YEAR. PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, November 10 (#).—The Portsmouth pro foot ball team of the National League has announced that Earl (Dutch) Clark, the team's quarterback and leading scorer, would be out of the game for the remainder of the season with two broken ribs and cther injuries suffered in Sunday's game® with the Chicago Bears. ag February Pebruary ebruary F itle. Need Tombstone After Grid Game ALESBURG, IIl, November 10 #).—The Knox College foot ball team has what it believes is the “last word” in grid souvenirs—in more ways than one. It is a tombstone which had been featured in a homecoming parade at Beloit College, and on which an epitaph indicating a_dire fate for Knox had been inscribed. Instead, Knox triumphed, 7 to 0, d the “Old Siwash” boys got the ‘last word” when they confiscated the tombstone from its float on the way to the station. 'Tech Coach Has Confidénce In His Team, but Won’t List Any Post-Season Grid Game [ BY EDWARD A. FULLER, Jr. E beat Western without its forward pass defense, | and I believe we could those other new players they have. But why bring that up? Tech is going to | on its schedule and call it a season.” There you have in his own words coach, to the opinion of some followers of high school foot ball who claim that given another crack at Tech, wipe out that 32-0 beating the Georgetowners! “How about taking on Gonzaga, Hap?” we asked. “You know some fight this year.” | ‘Maybe so, but Tech is playing only last year, 27 to 0, I think it was.| They've got a better team, I hear, but| what difference does that make. Tech | will play only three more games.” | admit’ that the 1931 Tech eleven is not as good as last year's team. { hitting its weakest spot, lick 'em again even with Draper and | play only the three games it has left the reaction of Hap Hardell, Tech the rejuvenated Western team could, if took from the Gray earlier in the series. people figure it could give Tech a real those three games. We licked Gonzaga ( I believe we could trim 'em again. But, Hap, by the way, is not willing to “Wait until the Eastern and Business | day game against Bethlehem High at Bethlehem “I just turned down a banquet invita- | tion for the Tech team before the Beth- lehem game,” said Hap today. I wired a banquet after the game will bz O. K. What Tech will want before the gam will be rest and quiet, not a big dinner. In the death of Assistant Principal H. Dale Davis, Tech High athletics lose a stanch supporter. Davis was an ener- getic booster for all the Tech teams and usual' attended all games, whether, at home or away. He also supported wholeheartedly "all other activities at the school c. He was a friend to all of them, s this thoroughgoing sportsman. pETE KLINE, who played only a few foot tall games at Central in 1927, his last year there, is holding forth In the backfield on the undefeated Cor- nell eleven and is putting up a cracking good game, too. He is only a sopho- more. However, he played at Mercers- burg Academy in 1928 and 1929, along with Bob Michelet, another former Cen- tral gridder. Michelet is a promising member of the Dartmouth varsity squad. Chester Pyles, former Eastern High gridder, is playing regularly at left guard for Dartmouth. Though he is performing with both legs braced as the result of injuries, he is putting up a whale of a game. He also is captain b wa. Gugin, Vanderbilt coach, says that Rob- | games are over, then maybe I can tell| of the Big Green lacrosse team. erts is the only man he has ever seen Tun in much the same driving way that | you. We may be beaten in one of those games, might even lose 'em both. You Seven members of the Tech foot ball Willle Heston of Michigan used to run. know Babe Ruth once struckout three | team are listed to graduate before an- Bob Neyland, Tennessee coach, made the statement that Roberts is by far the best running back in the South and that there is hardly a better in the country. his performance last Saturday counts for anything as a criterion, then he is just as geod & running back as is to be found anywhere. Booth of Yale 45 not near the back that Roberts is.|do ¢ Yale used to have a great driving back | of the name of Kline, who hed 190 unds or more; and if Kline had had | 's ability in a broken fleld, or if Booth had Kiine's driving power, then the composite yer be some- where close to TtS. times in one game.” Remember, too, that we'll be playing Eastern and Bu: ness within five days of each other. | | *\Tech ~this year though, is & better defensive team than last year. In the | backfleld we haven't any flashy ball| carriers like Al Richman, but we have | | some plow horses. They may get tangled up sometime, but they've besn able to mé.{rly well. I'm satisfied with the EVI'N if Tech gets by Eastern and Business, and if they don’t it will be the bi t upset here in man: a year, Hap Rgurcs his n proteges are inI for a rough time in uaex&'rnmxmwnz again. other season rolls around. They are Bell, Baxter, Rhodes and Dye, forwards, and Hatos, Sachs and Oehman, backs. Whether Wohlfarth, end, will be back is uncertain. Gramlich, Melkeljohn and Esunas, linemen, will return as will Foley and W;x{!n’:mn, backs, ‘ech will play about the same teams next Fall as this year ,including Bal- timore Poly, to be met here September 30; Swavely, to be engaged here or at Manassas November 18, and likel Handley High of Winchester, Va. Thanksgiving day opponent has listed yet. It may be Bethlehem o been High ! S8t York | r 16—Maryland State Normal. | His passing is a blow not| only to Tech, but to all the high schools | fiMM‘/ ARMQUR 1S SLOWING ue EXPECT HIM 10 BRING A BED OUT AT ANYTIME. Vo ELM \S QETTING TOUGH ENQUGH o COME QUT WITH GLOVES WSTEAD OF CLUBS... SEND ME OUT MY / DINNER - b =3 WALTER HAGEN HAS BEEN SHOWING THE WEAR ANO TeAR OF YEARS OF DOUGH-BAG PLAYING ... BY TOM OT tkat I want to be a criti- sissy, but professional golf- ers are taking on a pret- ty tough appearance from where I sit. Taking a squint at the boys the other afternoon as the dough bag shooters were ringing up the old register in the Kenwood open, it | seemed to me as if the old-timers | were showing the strain very markedly, and "the young pros are far from being as chipper and in- nocent-appearing as the amateurs of the same years and length of time in the game. Don'’t let me give you the impression that the shinplaster shooters resemble second-story men, refuse o shave and sandpaper their necks. Not that. But between you and me the pros today pos- sess mighty definite lines cf wear and tear upon their faces. They are no longer the cherubic types of some years back, when you and I were young, Mag- gie, and the dollar chasing in gclf was at a much lower ebb than it is today. And I'm going to teli you that I be- lieve competition is making the boys sag at the knees, put the dim in their orbs and is taking away their school- girl /complexion. It is helping, because professional golf is a bitter struggle for the dollar and dollars in golf, as in everything else, are not as plentiful when ggandpa came out of the war with his shotgun fyll of munition money. These pay-me-as-I-enter goofers are | trying to keep up with the JoneseS. And not getting away with it because, for club life must be inherited. At least I've found it to be true. And these pros in most cases are men who were once caddies who never let their scant dollars take them any rarther than home and mother. 8o it would seem to me that the so- cial end of golf is taking more cut of the dough-bag shooters than the stiff competition. even granting that golf trade is more spirited than ever. 'HERE'S Tommy Armour, the whim- sical Black-Scot, getting to show the years of tear and tussle from money golf. Tomasso is not as he used to be, but he is showing more than the sears of time. His game is standing up, as ihis year's British Open disclosed, and the Kenwcod Open verified. But he 15 no longer the easy- moving player of a few years back. In- stead, from my observation, he is a | tired, worn golfer who is playing on his | nerve and a previous day's game. Gene_Sarazen is getting heavy and | pudgy. He is no longer the sturdy, lithe, grinning Halian of a few semesters aft. | Gene's game looks as keen, mechan- ‘h:lll_v' as it did three ycars ago. But ]lhrrr's nothing else to his game but | machine precision and no man can like his golf if it comes to him in this man- | ner. | | Johnny Farrell, “the swellest dresser in golf,” no longer tries to uphold that | honor. He did not, at least, in the Ken- wood Open. I'm not saying that John- ny wore a blue shirt and red suspend- ers, nor that he was sox conscious. But I do mean that Johnny was not the smart dresser of old or else my sartorial taste has been flipped by the depres- sion. Farrell appears too tired to worry about ties. And T could go on and tell you some more little things I noticed to lead me | to believe that either the depression, country-club life or the night air is not making our professional goifers loom as athletic perfections. In short, they are getting to be a pretty worn-out flock of money shoot- ers. Yet folks will tell you that golf is an elderly gentleman's sport. IORT of being glad to be relieved of that chunk of seeming critisissyism, let me giggle at the plight of the ticket scalpers who have found that the depression has not yet turned the well known corner for them. These price- hitchers are moaning because they are being stuck with many tickets on the big grid games. To me it is not an in- dication of bad times-but better ones. ‘The great American sap and sucker now is getting what he wants at what he can afford. And not what the sharpers ly | believe he should stand for. It is the most encoura, information of the day. ne viecuiof And to prove that Santa Claus is still around, s goff ball manufacturer GNE ME GQREENS SOMMITT! w Critisissyisms on Pros nplaster Shooters Are Showing Game’s Wear and Tear. one reason, the ability to lead a country | s young | THE / €E - DOERE is going t | pellets. | It will not be long now before the | sports fan will be able to see some of these games about which he has been reading. While Washington's charity game will be a unique standout, New York may top the field with a game that should | be the only natural of them all—a battle | between the convicts’ team at Sing Sing and the New York pelice. And if you (hink that game is going to be played on a back lot you are plenty wrong. RESTLING again is making itself as conspicuous as Gandhi's knee- cap. This time it is overdoing what it once underplayed. It is giving the customers an overdose of melarkey lather, applesauce and prune juice. It is making a burlesque of an entertain- | ment, and the State athletic commis- sions over the country are warning the | beeves that tossing one another out into | the audience is not going to go. It is too tough on the. fans. ‘Wrestling reached a peak last year on showmanship, skidded a whole lot this semester and is due to slip some more before the Winter is over. But it will not be able to hold its own by trying to imitate the four Hawaiians. | " If Jim Londos can be moved from the top this Winter it will help to stay the | inevitable for a few montl But burlesque wrestling, as midget golf, has had its day. Just how long it is going to survive depends entirely on how fair the \wrestlers are willing to play with the cash customers. HE more this 'Bama - Washington teams grid tid-bit is called to at- tention the bigger it looms as a | unique, colorful dish to satisfy the ap- petite of the particular fan. It is the blueberry pie on & Nation- wide charity foot ball menu. One team meeting three is all new to me. But I can see where the arrangement will hold spectator interest from the toot of the whistle. Three sets of backs will offer a means of comparison as they speed into the Crimson Tide with their pet_plays. Tt "will be the only time the griddie client can see Washington’s three pop- Glar schools in action for only one poke at_the bankroll. Reading from left to right, T cannot see where - there is going to be a foot ball match in the country to match it for carnival atmosphere/ And the cus- tomer does want his frills with foot ball no matter who makes the touch- downs. reduce the price of his| 'ROAD WORK IS GIVEN 'NAVY GRIDIRON SQUAD !Badly Battered in Battle Last Saturday, Plly'eru Are Not Pressed by Miller. ANNAPOLIS, Md, November 10.— L. T. Elliott, varsity left end of the Navy foot ball team, will be out of the me for at least two weeks as a result of injuries sustained against Ohio State last Saturday. All the Tar regulars, except Geol Underwood, guard, are considerably | battered up from the game. | "The first and second teams did no work yesterday, while Miller spent the afternoon surveying his next year's prospects on the remainder of the squad. Actual practice for the Navy eleven will not begin until Wednesday, today being used for a cross-country hike. The coaching staff is far from dis- couraged by the showing made against Ohio State. According to Miller, the game was simply a case of the Navy team being overpowered and out- weighed. It was unable to tally after shaving the ball into the Buckeyes’ 20-yard line on five occasions. “It was a heartbreaker to lose” Miller said, pointing to statistics which showed that Navv gained more ground than Ohio State and wgs a continual threat. P 6. U. BASKETERS OUT Small Squad Btarting Practice in Ryan Gym Today. Georgetown University basket ball c-nfldrl'fefl were to hold their arill this afternoon in Ryan gym. was_postponed from yesterday. ‘The squad will not be complete until the foot ball playing basketers sre through with gridiron activities. z a N //fi \@ = fi(: PANALTy OF =SS SIS —By TOM DOERER - PROMINENCE / | Yale Coaches Accept Game- With Harvard Grid Mentors EW HAVEN, Conn, November 10.—Dr. Marvin A. Stevens, head foot ball coach at Yale, has accepted the challenge of | the Harvard eoaches to piay a game in Cambridge the day before the Yale- Harvard varsity contest. Stevens said he would request the game be played in eight four-minute pericds, a condition to which Harvard is agreeable. The Yale coach immediately announced his probable liue-up as follows: Stew- art Scott, left end; Reggle Root, left tackle; Herb Miller, leti guard; Jack Miller, center; Kempton Duni guard; Fay Vincent, right tackle; St ley Gill, right end; Benny Frierdman, quarterback; Johnny Gdrvey or Bob Hall, left haMback;. Ray Pond, right | halfback; Paul (Bucky) O'Connor, full- back. Stevens said he probably would get in the game himself. | * The “contest is scheduled for 1:30 | oclock Friday, November 20, in Cam- | bridge. The challenge came to the Yale coaches from Henry Clark of the Har- | vard Athletic Association on behalf of | Eddie Casey, Ben Ticknor and other Harvard ccaches. The recent injury suffered by Adam Walsh, Yale line coach, in demon- strating a play to the Yale varsity may deprive the Yale coaches of a valuable center. Walsh captained the Four Horsemen eleven at Notre Dame. . TIP FOR FISHERMEN. FERRY, W. Va., November | D PAGE C—1 een as Foot Ball Moses MARVIN LEADS WAY INTO OPEN GROUND College Presidents Step In to Make Short Shrift of Charity Problem. BY R. D. THOMAS. R. CLOYD HECK MARVIN, president of George Wash- ington University, is being hailed as something of a foot ball Moses as a result of ar- rangements by which three Wash- ington institutions will wage com- mon cause in the charity game December 12 with the University of Alabama. Capital grid folk have about ex- hausted arguments born of failure to bring together any two of the city's elevens in a regular contest, but Dr. Marvin has delivered himself of one fact that makes for a live topic. T came as a pleasant surprise to newspaper men the other day when the Colonial chief obscrved casually that the presidents of George Wash: ington, Georgetown and Catholic uni- versities ever so often got together in friendly huddle and found it mutually helpful. ‘The formal business was done through the athletic departments, but there is reason to believe the particjpation of the three universities in the charity game was decided upon by three schol- arly gentlemen to whom small differ- ences meant nothing when s worthy principle was involved—in this instance a very Christian one. 'OOT BALL is a minor subject with most educators, but for & time here it became one of importance, viewed from several angles. And in the facil- ity with which a major problem was handled when three minds. unfettered by petty prejudices, were focused on it may be seen better things for foot ball in Washington. Directors of athletics have been set an example by their big chiefs. As Dr. Marvin put it speaking di- rectly to athletic representatives of George Washington, Georgetown and Catholic universities, after arrange- ments were completed for the three- ring foot ball circus of December 12, “The presidents of these schoo¥s get to- gether and help each other. Why con't you fellows?” It seems that all of the foot ball coaches are getting around to it or have adopted the view that games be- tween local teams are not to be desired, particularly as a regular thing. And with this form of competition about eliminated, the larger institutions are bent upon bringing big-tixe elevens here as turnstile clickers. If there is to be any ccmpetition, it will be of this nature, and none could be healthier for the game “fself. On this the coaches agree unanimously, and where co-operation might be in- valuable, as Dr. Marvin pointed out, would be in the arrangement of sched- ules to avoid conflicting dates wherever possible. WITTMER TO STAY Princeton Athletics Head Declares Grid Coach Will Not Be Fired. PRINCETON, N. J., November 10 (). —Reports that Al Wittmer, head foot ball coach at Princeton, was to be re- placed immediately have been denied by Thurston J. Davies, supervisor of athletics. ) “There absolutely is no basis what- soever for the rumor that Wittmer is to be replaced,” Davies said. Wittmer, when he replaced Bill Roper, signed a 4-yea® contract. The unusually poor record of the Tigers this season—one victory and five defeats—has prompted several rumors that the contract would be broken and HARPERS | 10.—The Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers were clear this mornin, We- knew Men would welcome this Sale and they have indeed! 2,000 prs. exceptionally good men’s shoes—bought much under price — and passed on to you, same way! 15 of the season’s leading styles — mostly beautifully finished black and brown calfs—with square, round or narrow toes. Don’t miss this, fellows! 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