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Sports News * WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Fhen ng %iaf’ ‘ Features and Classified | WAS HINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1931 Pt PAGE D—1 Marines Unawed by Guards’ Grid Record : “Rebels” Control Minors’ Convention Are Big and Fast. G the Quantico Marines and Grifith Stadium Saturday for thej the favorite to win on account of Their entire squad, a large one, with | Both Teams in Hot Service Contest Here Saturday RIDIRON fans who have been following closely the 1931 accomplishments of the Coast Guard Bears predict the hardest fought contest of the local foot ball season when these two heavy, fast teams meet at President’s Cup. While the Marines are the de- fenders and have twice beaten the Coast Guard, the latter team is its brilliant string of eight con-: secutive victories with but one close score. The Bears have also come through without injury. great reserve strength, is in excellent condition The Marines, however, are not at all awe dby the Coast Guard's record. Coach George McHenry of the Leather- | as charity contests and an ailment de- | necks, points out that the Marine team | scribed as falling of the gate receipts. | has been getting better with each start, | Trojan Officials To Scout Tulane By the Assoclated Press OS ANGELES, December 3. —In- dicating that Tulane University now is first choice as an oppo- nent for the University cf Southern California in the Rose Bowl game New Year day, Aubrey Devine, Tro- jan scout, and Francis Tappaan, freshman coach, left for New Or- leans last night {a.scout the Tulane- Washington State game to be played there Saturday. Northwestern University had been considered es a possible opponent for the Trojans. ECONOMY KEYNOTE OF BIG TEN PARLEY Curtailment of Schedules Likely—Touchdowns Costly for Wisconsin. By the Associated Press HICAGO, December 3.—Western Conference athletic directors and coaches will foregather in | Chicago tomorrow for their annual Winter meeting, to arrange | schedules and to talk about such things While the directors and coaches are OLD LINERS FACE PSYCHOLOGY JINX | | | | | | ARYLAND foot ball folk are more than a little annoyed to Gain and Nothing to Lose Saturday. M over the game with Western Maryland Saturday in Balti- more, which will close the season for both institutions. The Green Terror is without some of the sterling players | who weighted the scales against the | Terrapin in the last two clashes, but is still strong enough to make the go- jmg tough for any team and on Satur- day psychology will be in its favor. | Western Maryland has lost three games, all tough ones, and one more defeat on its record won't make wmuch difference in a way, but & triumph over Maryland would be sweeter than nsual because of the Terrapins' fine record |this year. On the other hand, Mary- land feels it has little to gain by beat- |ing the Terror. Western Maryland has played fine | foot ball all season, but has been a | victim of bad luck. The team has von high commendation for its fundamen- tal play, particularly its blocking and £ Ll.ckfins, LAYING three teams on one day may not prove an ordeal for the Crimson Tide of Alabama Decem- | ber 12, when it takes on George Wash- the best performance of the Sea DOKS‘hnldmg their various meetings the | ington, Catholic University and George- being the most recent victory ovr John | Faculty Committee on Athletics will get | town, Carroll University, at Cleveland, 43 to 0. HE Coast Guard, coached by Lieut. Irving Baker, has been pointing for this game. Immediately after their final game with St. Thomas' Col- lege, at Scranton, the Bears were taken to Plum Island, off the New England coat, to “prep” for the Marines. Zeher, O'Neill and Bauer are expect- ed to star for the Marines, while May- nard, Heffelfinger, Libby, Cawley, Ed- wards and Rowland are expected to make the yardage for the Coast Guard. The President's Cup was originally awarded by President Coolidge for com- petition “between representative teams of the Army and Navy.” The deed of gift was later amended by its donor to specifically include the Marines. Still later President Hoover, at the instiga- tion of Secretary Mellon, again amend- ed the deed of gift to include the Coast | Guard Peculiarly the two contending teams for 1930 and 1931 were not orig- | inally mentioned in the first deed of gift. HE Marine team includes officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps and also one Navy pharma- cist’s mate, “Lone Gob” Tipton The Coast Guard team includes one | officer, Lieut. Eddie Rowland, former | Canisius College star. The enlisted men | on the squad are from cutters, destruy—" ers, patrol boats and seaboard life-sav- | ing stations. The rivals’ records: Quantico Marines Coast Guard 32 Hampt'n R. A 32 Allbright _Col. 14 8t. Thomas C. 13 Langley Pleld 0 Langley Pield. 31 N. River 8t. C. 18 Campbell Col. 35 Canistus Col. 74 Fort Dupont.. 3 8t Francis ©. 57 Balto Firemen 31 Penn 8t Tab! 7 St. Thomas... cakloaassas 13 John Carroll. . 269 52 216 Games won, 8; lost, Games won, 8; 2; tied, 1 ost s Previous winners of the President’s Cup are: 1924—Army, 13; Navy, 0. 1925—Marines, 20; Army, 0. 1926 _Marines. 27; Army. 7 1927—Marines. 14; Army, 0. 10; Marines. 0 9; Coast Guard, 0. ; Coast Guard, 0. ONLY 7 GRID GAMES ON YALE’S 1932 LIST Campaign Is Shortened to Check “Breather” Criticism and to Foster Intramurals. By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 3.— Yale will play only seven foot ball games in 1932, compared to eight this season and nine last year. The sched- ule contains an open date November 6, the week before the Princeton game. Athletic officials indicated the short- ened season was arranged primarily to stop criticism that Yale frequently has played a comparatively weak team as a “breather” before the Princeton and Harvard battles. It also was understood to be in line with eflorts to increase the emphasis on intramural athletics. The schedule October 1 Brown 22, November 12 19, Harvard with competition ended against Georgia, which trounced Yale for three eonsecutive seasons, Brown will return 1o its place on the Eli schedule. Bates; 8, Chicago; 15 Army; 29, Dartmouth Princeton at Princeton; ST. JOHN'S HAS NINE GRID GAMES FOR 1932 ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 3.—Nine foot ball games have been scheduled for the St. John's College team for 1932, M. Talbot Riggs, director of athletics and head foot ball coach, has a nounced. This year St. John's olayed eight games and broke even, Yal, La- fayette, Western Maryland and Hop- kins defeating the local team. It was also learned from President Douglass Huntly Gordon of St ' MIDDY COACH John's | together, probably in secret, for their annual session. Foot ball schedules for 1932 are ready and need only to be approved, but the annual indoor and outdoor | track and field championship dates must be selected and awarded. This, however, probably will leave plenty of time for the foot ball coaches to dwell | on the unexpected outcome of the notes on the financial situation. Crowds last Fall were “off” |alarming extent and retrenchments to an especially in minor sports. The prob- lem already has become critical at Wis- consin and Iowa. At Iowa, Dr. E. H. Lauer, director of athletics, has an- nounced that the Hawkeye program for next year must be lines of strictest economy. Badgers in Hole. State Senator Bernard Gettelman of Milwaukee has figured out thet Wis- consin’s touchdowns came at the price of $5.454 in the recent season, and has asked why they should cost so much. The Bedgers finished the foot ball sea- son with an athletic department deficit of more than $70,000 and their pro- gram probably will be trimmed. There may also be announcements of changes in foot ball coaches, for re- ports persist that Bernie Bierman, now at Tulane, will succeed Fritz Crisler at Minnesota, and that Glenn Thistle- thwaite will not be at Wisconsin a year | hence. Three more captains have been elect- ed by Big Ten foot ball squads for next season. Minnesota has chosen Walter Hass, halfback; Purdue has named John Oehler, a reserve center, while g.hifiqo has named Don Birney, half- ck. EASES PRACTICE SESSIONS Long Schedule Proves Strain on Navy Squad—Moncure Gen- eral Against Penn. ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 3.—In order to have his team in the best of | physical shepe for the coming games with Pennsylvania and Army, Coach Edgar Miller of the Naval Academy eleven plans to steadily lessen the se- verity of his practices, Due to the fact that darkness handi- caps the latter part of the customary period devoted to practice and that the l1-game schedule is proving & severe strain on the players, Miller cut his sesslon an hour yesterday and plans to | follow this practice generally in the future. Not only in length, but in severity | Will the sessions be modified, light scrimmages and drills in fundamentals constituting the most important phases. Moncure has been definitely selected as the varsity quarterback for the Pennsylvania game and led a backfield composed of Kirn, Tschirgi and Camp- bell through a dummy scrimmage against the fourth class team yesterday. | HEAVY FOOT BALL LIST Northwestern Picks Sturdy Foes for Next Fall, | . EVANSTON, 1ll, December 3 (#).— Northwestern will ‘meet three powerful | non-Conference foes 1n foot ball next season, tackling Missouri, Stanford and Notre Dame. Five Big Ten games will be played The schedule 1—Missour! at Northwestern. 8 -Northwestern at Stanford. 15—Northwestern at Iilinof 22—Purdue at Northwestern. 26—Northwestern at Minnesota. November 5—Ohio State at Northwestern. November 12 November 1. < ~ Towa at Northwestern ores College Grid Critics that there would be no change in the | athletic personnel of the college for next year, Riggs remaining, with the assistance’ of Leonard (Dutch) Lentz, William A. Stromeyer and Joe Novak. The Johnnies' 1932 grid schedule in- cludes four newcomers over last year, but of the group only St time. Definitely scheduled games follow October 8—Johns Hopkins in Balti- more October 15—St. Joseph here. October 22—Maryland ~ at Park. October 20—Virginia at ville November 1 November 2 emy at Chester. Games also have been listed with Hampden-Sydney, Lynchburg College _and Gallaudet, but dates are tentative. There is also a &sslhmty that & tenth game will be added. ' ‘Western Maryland and LaSalle were by the Johnnies, while Yale Dot offer the locals another date, College Lafayette at Easton. Penn Military Acad- Charlottes- | | champlonship race, and to exchange | may cause curtailment of schedules, | conducted along | Ncrthwestern at Notre Dame. The Tide will bring along 24 | seasoned men, every one of them a first-class performer, and all likely will | see service. It seems that a team is no | stronger than its reserves in this day of high speed on the gridiron and Ala- bama certainly should have no cause for worry on that score. No matter | what change in its line-up it finds ad- | visable, the incoming player may be depended upon to keep up a high standard, Tickets for the game are selling at & steady gate, scaled at $2.50, $2 and $1.50, and, given a weather break, the | big show should set an attendance record, GEORGIA STAR END ILL Smith Has Touch of Flu, but May Face Trojans December 12. ATHENS, Ga., December 3 (#).—Ver- non (Catfish) Smith, famous end of the Georgia foot ball team, is suffering from a light touch of influenze, but there was hope he would recover in time to play against Southern California in Los Angeles December 12. COLONIALS TO HAVE GIANT BASKET TEAM All Prospective Regulars Except Burgess Are Big Fellows. Drill for Opener. A titanic as well as an experienced and clever basket ball squad today is in prospect at George Washington University, where Coach Jim Pixlee has been preparing his 1931-32 court team for its opening game of the season, on December 16, against Shenandoah Col- lege in the G. W. gymnasium. With the exception of Forrest Bur- gess, high-scoring District player last year, each of the men regarded as cer- tainties to make either the regular team or to win first substitute berths is over 6 feet in height. Every player of the 1931 team will be back except Capt. Jack Connor, who may join after the midyear examina- tions. In addition to Burgess, other veterans are Otts Zahn, Chambers, Mul- vey, Fenlon and Carlin. The latter quartet, however, will not be available juntil after the charity clash between G. W. and Alabama. The newcomers are looked upon as potential first-stringers this season. They are Werdon Parrack and Ralph Hertzler. Parrack is a forward, stand- ing 6 feet 5 inches. Hertzler stands feet 4}, inches, Sl Western Maryland Has All| JUST ANOTHER SCR PUBLIC IS CURIOUS *OVERGRD DEATHS | Result of 31 Fatalities Pondered—Fordham Pays Tribute to Murphy. | By the Associated Press. EW YORK, December 3. —While | Fordham University paid its last tribute today to Cornelius Murphy, jr., 2l-year-old foot | ball star, who died yesterday of in- | sport-loving public wondered what | would be the result of the unusual | number of gridiron fatalities during | the 1931 season. Murphy’s death was the thirty-first recorded this season. ™n many quar- ters it was belleved important steps would be taken to check the toll of foot ball. Coaches, officials, ex-players and others connected with foot ball rallied to the support of their game and pointed out that few players had been | killed or even seriously injured in major | college games, Of the 31 deaths re- | corded so far only 4 have occurred at | major colleges, one at a small college and one at a normal. school. Others | were at high schools or in “sandlot” | games where players often went into the game without proper protective gar- ments or proper training and super- vision. The exceptions are Murphy, Cadet Richard B. Sheridan, jr, Army end, who died October 26 of a broken neck suffered in a game against Yale; C. V. Smith, Millsaps College tackle, who suffered a fatal neck injury playing against Stetson November 11, and James Nichols, Alabama freshman cen- ter, whe died November 17 from in- jurles in a scrimmage with the varsity. Fordham's farewell to Murphy, one of the leading candidates for the foot ball captaincy in 1632, took place early today when high requiem mass was celebrated in the University chapel. Later today the body, accompanied by the youth’s tather, two sisters and a brother, was o be taken back home to Greenfleld, Mass, where the burial will be held, probably Saturday. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Assoclated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, December 3.—The | tremendous physical strain of three years of varsity foot ball, | two base ball and two basket ball campaigns put upon a physique that mustered only 145 pounds is be- lieved to have contributed to the break- down that has forced Albie Booth into 8 private sanitarium for months of rest and recuperation Despite his lack of size, the “Little Boy Blue” of Yale's major teams since his freshman year has put a long and vivid athletic career behind him. At Yale he duplicated his all-around ath- letic activities through four years in a New Haven high school and g ve Northwestern Head Says Game Gives Practical l]nderslaudin'g of Joseph_of | Philadelphia is appearing for the first | By the Associated Press. HICAGO, December 3 —Crit- ics of foot ball decrying the game as too hazardous for college men, have been re- ferred by President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University to the rocord of the Western Conference during the past 40 years. “For 40 years I have been a feculty member of the Western Conference,” Dr. Scott said in an address yester- day. “In all that time there has not been a single fatality or an accident involving serious to any of the thousands of i wh . Human Equation. foot ball is becoming that undergraduate player: subsidized and that sport detracts from th fl'xl‘ue :’:1 campus life, ‘earing aside one complaint agal; foot ball after another, as set 1a$§ by opponents to the game, Dr. Scott. in’ presenting statistics, showed that members of the Northwestern eleven that tied this vear for the Big Ten tidle rank as high collectively as any other student group on the campus, “Many of the most outstandi figures on our Northwestern xnculrt‘g were college players of stellar rank in earlier life” he said, “Instead of being hurt by competition, these pro- fessors gained in their sports & more by of the human mercenary, s are being the gridiron e educational Athletics All Work, No Play For Booth, Broken Yale Star at Milford School. worked every bit of his way. | With two brothers, A'bie conducted a | mi'’k route that forced him out of bed each morning of his high school days at 4 o'clock. That provided him with funds to stay in school. When he landed at Yale Albie sold automobiles to pay his bills. There have been university honors aside from athletic laurels to fill the time of the rugged little fellow, who was the first of modern Yale ball car- riers to gain more than 1,000 yards from scrimmage in a single season. Last month he was elected chairman of the “Prom” Committee for class day exercises next June. Booth captained foot ball, basket ball, and base ball teams in his freshman year, captained his last varsity foot ball squad and was captain-elect of the bas- ket ball five. He roamed over the base | ball team, playing shortstop, third base or center feld equally well. He won five varsity letters, in base ball and foot ball, besides two minor awards in basket ball. Not since-Mal Aldrich captained both the foot ball and base ball teams in his senior year has Yale boasted an athlete as versatile as Booth. He might have set a record never be- fore equaled in Yale history by accept- ing the base ball captaincy to add to the honor foot ball and basket ball paid him, after Edgar Warren, captain-elect, lost an arm last August in a motor boat accident. The boys decided to elect Albie. But Booth shook his head. “Ed will be out there yet,” he said. ‘Warren probably will be, but Booth has finished his varsity career. He will need at least four months’ rest in the Gaylord Sanitarium at Wallingford | fighting off a pleurisy infection end the | danger of a more serious lung ailment. | SEEKS BASKET GAME. An unlimited class opponent for a game “cn their own floor tomorrow night i sought by the Virginians. Manager John Watt's phone number is B02Uedy Is| | juries suffered in his team’s closing | }gnme with Bucknell 10 days ago, the| In addition, hel AP OF PAPER. Wt e CORPORAL'S TOES FAIL To DO WiLL BE DONE BY MORET, A GRENT PASS RECEIVER, AND YOUNG, A SHIFTY, FLEEING BACK WITH A WORLD 'MONACO, C. U. GUARD, ' GIVEN MERIT AWARD | Player Most Valuable to Eleven This Year. | . Catholic University’s Gibraltarlike | left guard, Nick Monaco, today was re- celving homage, After carefully scan- ning the fleld, Head Foot Ball Coach | Dutch Bergman, cited Monaco as C. U.'s | most valuable 1931 player. | This award, introduced by Bergman | when he made his bow as athletic di- rector at Brookland a year ago, carries with it a medal indicative of ability. sportsmanship, loyalty and co-operation Monaco, a senior, succeeds “Bus” | Sheary, rugged fullback, in the position | of honor. | Expert at - leading interference. | Monaco proved a.savage blocker and | fine tackler. He contribut:d smashing line play in all of his eleven’s tests this season. Though remarkably consistent, one of the greatest preformances of Monaco's career was in the Boston College in- augural early in September, the only 1931 contest relinquished by C. U. Sent into the game after & three-day period of training, the Newark, N. J., lad came through with the standout forward wall game of the day. Not until his advent as a freshman at Catholic U. four years ago did Nick learn the rudiments of the gridiron game. Casting his ot with Eddie La Fond's vearlings while a novice, he made the grade in short order and finished the season a regular. Nick's been on the job regularly ever since and is ranked among the most valuable all-time C. U. gridironers, GRINUS V. P. I. CAPTAIN Big Tackle Is Picked to Lead 1032 Eleven at Blacksburg. BLACKSBURG, Va., December 3 (®). —Bill Grinus, tackle, has been named captain-elect of the 1932 foot ball team at Virginia Polytechnic In- stitute. is Grinus 2 200-pounder, an all- |around athlete and has been regular ;rlght tackle on the Gobbler eleven for two seasons, He is a member of the track team and one of two men to win four athletics awards as a V. P. I, freshman. ST. JOHN'S AND K. OF C. IN BASKET BALL TILT Game Tonight First of Season for Cadets—Potomacs Play at Hagerstown. | Their hopes high, St. John's basket ballers tonight will open their season Wwith a game with the Knights of Co- lumbus team on the St. John's floor at 8 oglxock. . Three of last year's first stringers, Capt. Mike Scanlon, Fred Scheele‘:nd Johnny McCarthy, are back at St. gmollén's. udwse};nu wgn:ubcmutu. Cum- g5 an one. They probal su’;; mlanE: 'Y P bly will e Caseys are ted to furnish the scholastics with the com;em‘.ion they are looking for. l;nxe Johnnies have a 22-game sched- ule. Potomac Boat Club basketers will open their season tonight at Hagers- town, Md., where they will tackle the Alsatians. The local team of Roberts, Noonan, Shorb, Kelso, Esbaugh, Albert, John- son, Cunningham, Devis, Barker and Stansbury, is entered in a trio of | leagues, the Nautical, Boys' Club and Community Center. ‘Ten Hills c"%mn‘:h g{bhhflmfl!. are games 135-pound Wash- oourt, its. 53 te O. L. t, Lo e e Selected by Coach Bergman as| BY TOM OACH LIEUT. BAKER of the Coast Guard foot ball | C nard, Bear backfield ace, as what the doctor ordered to make the Marine bull purp wiggle his ears at Griffith Stadium next Saturday afternoon. And the boys at Quantico have been laughing in their sleep ever since. “Is this Maynard 11 men?” asks Lieut. Joe Burger, Marine back- field man. “Now if the lieutenant wants to hear of a good man; a real good foot ball player, I'll introduce him to Corporal George Robertson on Saturday afternoon, and let him figure it out for himself,” says Coach Lieut. McHenry over the phone from down there in Quan- tico. Is this man Robertson good? best natural kicker I've ever seern,” coos the portly coach. Tune in on the lieutenant and youw'll hear that Robertson is that good that the new commandant ought to have the corporal over to dinner every Sun- day afternoon, Listen intently and the coach will excitedly inform the world that when George starts to MNft his ‘whacking boot the enemy picks out & nice soft spot near their goal line and digs in-a defense for the after- noon, The corporal is a kicking natural with as much heart in his booting as a Missouri mule with a bee in its ear. He just lays a quintet of toes against the leather pineapple and hopes it does not hit a church steeple in the next county. But what hoppens is that the cow- | hide loops the loop and lands down | near the last stripe, just far enough to enable 11 of the enemy to stop in their tracks, with 11 Marines not down there to give them the key to the city. Ducking the buffoonery, this fellow Robertson is really going to be the man upon whom McHenry will depend a great deal to dent the unbeaten record of the Coast Guard outfit. Records show that he was booting like a champ ln‘ the l;‘n[l:y ‘F‘lell: game, going great guns in the tuss! With 'the Baliimore firemen and then just fair for the rest of the way. This lapse, McHenry explains, was due to an injury received in the Baltimore tussle, but from which the big back has fully recovered. Perusal of the Marine team's battles of the season show that George has not | only been kicking at top speed but de- serves a lot of credit for sturdy defen- sive work. Add to this his ability to receive - Records do not disclose any anllity on his part to toss the apple, but they do show him eleven presents Leslie May- | The | —By TOM DOERER 008 VIEON ALL-MARINE BACKFIELD ACE — WHO MAY KiCk A’HOLE THROUGH THE UNBEATEN RECORD OF COAST GUARD SATURDAY His Punts Like Graf Flights Coast Guard Eleven Must Reckon With Robinson of Marines. DOERER: and such. And he is shining as a receiver on a team that has a sweet group of nabbers in Moret, Ferrel, Rosik, ends, and Zeher and Young, backs. McHenry's passing game is function- ing so well that it may be the means by which he will conquer the Hard Tacks. He does not say so, and who is there to say that he should say so at this time. But he does admit that his kicking and hurll.n{ departments are all that he could ask. Robertson is 6 feet, weighs 185 pounds and is 21 years of age. His foot ball experience was gained at Winthrop (Mass.) High School and furthered by a year of action with the famous All-Marine eleven of Philadelphia, which was shattered last year when the players were ordered to various Marine bases over the country, As only one officer is permitted to will have to choose between Lieuts. | O'Neill, Burger and Bauer. No matter which of the trio gets into action, McHenry is sure of a smart player. Each has had plenty of experience, | Burger at Maryland, O'Neill and Bauer at the Naval Academy. One of the important incidents of the day for foot ball men at Quantico yesterday was the selec- tion of a captain for the game Saturday. That honor goes far the second time to Gunnery Sergt. H. P. Crowe, a lineman. He was nominated by the members of his team and not selected by the coach, as are the captains for the regular season games. Crowe has been identified with the Quantico Marine eleven since 1923. He is also a veteran rifle shot title holder in the corps. It is the duty of the pilot of the winning eleven Saturday to accept | the President’s Cup for his outfit. = | And Crowe is expected to be the | | man to tuck away the cup by the boys | at Quantico. They cannot figure how the Hard Tacks are going to get away from their own goal line with Bobert- | son kicking the leather and a tough Leatherneck line digging in. Which is important, if true. And how true it is will be answered .late Saturday afternoon—and not until, AFTER DIXIE LAURELS North Carolina, With New Coach, Out for Basket Ball Glory. CHAPEL HILL, N. C, December 3 (#)—North Carolina, which once held prowess in Southern basket ball, will seek to regain its place at the top of the list this season under a new coach. George “Bo” Shepard, all-Eastern forward at Army, who coached the Tar Heel freshmen to a Big Five cage title last year, is the new pilot. Artie Marpet, all-Star guard, and star center, who fin- OLD LEADERS OUT DEFINITELY TODAY Five-Man Committee Planned to Run Association for Year, Then Report. BY PAUL MICKELSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. EST BADEN, Ind, De- cember 3.—The “rebels’ of the National Associa- tion of Professional Base Ball Leagues, parent body of America’s 16 existing minor leagues, apparently have won the battle of West Baden. Backed by an overwhelming major. ity, they were in full charge of the thirtieth annual convention today and ready to complete their plans for @ drastic reorganization of the associa- tion—a reorganization which would oust the present administration body and replace it with a committee of five club owners with absolute powers of management and control. The showdown of their fight was definitely set for today and not one member of the old regime, headed by President Mike Sexton of Rock Island, IIL, had any hopes of retaining his powers. Only because some “rebel- minded” owners wanted to get more information about the reorganization plan was the movement postponed from yesterday. NDER the plan, Sexton, president for 22 years, would be retired with a full year's salary and the com- mittee, three members from the Class AA League and the other two from Class B and D Leagues, placed in full charge for a year, during which it would make recommendations. The committee would be directed to create a central purchasing agency for all minor league supplies, make con- tracts toward general rehabilitation and to map campaigns to give minor league base ball a wider appeal. So far the minor leagues have staged their own show without the majors stealing the act with their important trades or sales. As the meeting neared the end today, only one major league deal had been announced—the sale of Third Baseman Andy High of the St. Louis Cardinals to the Cincinnati Reds. All the majors were represented and brewing deals, but none of any im- portance was expected to break until their own meeting next week, in Chicago. 8 the minor leaguers met in gen- eral or separate conference, they turned out several developments, including: The reorganization of the Central League, which will be operated as a six or eight club circuit next season with South Bend, Ind.; Wayne, Ind.; Dayton, Canton and Akron, Ohio, and Erie, Pa. South Bend and Akron are the new members, while two more were expected to be an- nounced today. The re-election of all officers of the International e. A complete arrangement by which Nick Williams, former manager of the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast League, would scout for Portland of the same circuit at a reported sal- ary of $5,000 annually. Purchase of Harry Taylor, first base man of the Seattle Club of the Pacific Coast League, by the Chicago Cubs at & reported price of $25,000. Appointment of W. H. Erwan of the Western League as an umpire in the American Association. The release of Frank Murphy as man- ager of the Danville Club of the Three Eye League. The reappointment of Bert Neihoff as pilot of the Chattancoga Club of the Southern League. DALRYMPLE TOPS ’EM ALL Tulane End a Unanimous Choice for All-Southern Team. ATLANTA, Ga., December 3 (P).— Gerald “Jerry” Dal e, Tulane's great end, polled the heaviest vote among players nominated for the sixth annual all-Southern Conference foot ball team selected for the Associated Press by sports writers and coaches. He was a unanimous choice. The selections follow: Pirst team. play upon each team the Marine coach | 2% The team as a whole averages 185 pounds in weighf and stands 5 feet 9 inches. The average age of the players is 21, 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. URLEY BYRD has selected all- high first and second foot ball teams for 1911 as follows: First team—Smith, Western, left end; King, Central, left tackle; Jones, Central, left guard; Corwin, Tech, center; Lewis, Tech, right guard; , Central, Eckendorf, Tech, right end; Morris, Tech, tgx:r terback; Reuter, Central, left half back; Van Dyne, Central, right hal , and Hamilton, Central, fullback. Second team—Stone, West- ern, left end; White, Tech, left tackle; Brooks, Western, left guard; Stokes, Central, center; Zapponi, Central, right guard; Willlams, East- ern, right tackle; Dyson, Central, right end; Wells, Eastern, quarter- back; Smith, Eastern, left halfback; Howard, Western, right halfback, and Weaver, Eastern, fullback. Central, with Thomas as coach, unquestionably had the best eleven in the series. The Washington base ball team will train next Spring in Char- lottesville, Va. Y. M. C. A. quint continued its winning streak by defeating Carroll Institute, 36 to 16, in a Capital City Basket Ball League game. Play- ing for the “Y” team were Hall, Miller, Frazier, Valk, McKay, Mac- Donald, Allwine and Barnes, and Carroll Institute’s pérformers were Croghan, Shalin, Duncan, Downey, Rice, Bolac, Walsh and O'Dyer. Hughes was the referee, Gable the scorer and Allen and Sullivan the timers. Georgetown U. has a good foot Hegarly. Burgus, Whe. Fury’ and Vs an Costello, regular: ished their last 3 . muml" year, will be '8 year, Hegarty h‘?vf Burgan are the