Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1931, Page 45

Sports News L & ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Toen . Sta Features and Classified | Southern Conference to Air Troubles : Players Woul MUCH PLAIN TALK. LIKELY AT SESSION Banded Dixie Schools Hope' to Correct Faults—D. C. Coaches to Attend. . BYRD. | HE annual meetings of the| Southern Conference and | Southern Foot Ball Coaches' | Asscciation take place this weck, Thursday, Friday and Sat- urday, at New Orleans. The gath- ering of the coaches’ association is Thursday night, while represen- tatives of the 23 institutions mak- ing up the conference get together Fr and Saturda The coaches” meeting is open to all , whether or not they ed with a Conterence schcol. | 11 probability there will be some | plai language among { the Conference, when they | tive session Sat- | The open meeti be productive of little of malit but in the closed sure to be some BY H. er than fi tr : ‘problem that confronts eems to be in the mat- Cc regu It is not in some cases high stand- lastic eligibility have not followed, and there is not the that steps will be taken to | on of “recruiting” athletes ' to come up for consid- nd some rather defi- E down as to what may t be done in relationships to stars in the high and prep swever, the rumor that started early that some, 10 of the confer- wols planned "to withdraw from rence and form a Southern never had much real founda- chance that the conference up, or disintegrate in any far removed from what to occur as anything possibly atter of fact, if plans made for ence meeting Gao Ot go awry, 1 be taken which should cement 0 a closer and more and also provide at eligibility rules it and a he Middl» ing ga gs in t oached before com- where bott want o renew old make new ones of the e given at the coaches’ mezting Thursday night is to be by Dan McGugin of Vander- nd his subject is “The Responsibil- s of the Foot Ball Coach.” In h k McGugin intends to go right to t fountain head of recruiting and say ngs just about as plainly as th be said. McGug Soutt od of ch in tr all those for the going to conference 1 Il leave herc. or from points in Virginia tonight. They are due to arrive at New Orleans Thursday Representatives of conference | the South Atlantic section town and Catholic cen in touch with two days, mak- travel together. here i though. that if Tom Mills » ‘trip, he may not leave until We SOLDIERS IN COURT PLAY Three Groups Will Take Part in Series for Area Title. Play in the 3d Corps Area basket ball championship series will open Jan- uary 9 with the playing of games in three of the four groups in which the | 13 teams have been divided. Army | War Coll will meet Headquarters Army Medicos will face ng champion, in nd ood Arsenal will nd Holzbird Depot Howard. Fort Meade h Fort Washington in ; Ficld, the third team | 4, will not see action | month | ! WASHINGTON, 2| i i D. UESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1931. PAGE D--1 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. | ALTIMORE and Chattanooga ball clubs are after Kid Elberfeld, Washington infielder. Car! Cashion, big Washingion pitcher, has been praised by so many club managesr that Clark Griffith, new Washington pilot, plans to de- vote special attention to him in the | Spring. | Georgetown University is urging Fred Neilsen to continue as its foot ball coach. Frank Gargan will re- main as assistant mentor. Bill Foley, who has done well as Georgetown track coach the last two seasons, will again assume charge of the trackmen at the Hilltop after Christmas. PRICE OF GRIDIRON TICKETS T0 BE CUT Pacific | | Coast Conference Leaves Cost Reduction to Its Members. By the Associated Press | AN FRANCISCO, December 15-—‘ Foot ball tickets probably will cost the Western fan less next season, the Pacific Coast Confer- ence having approved reduction for the pasteboard slips. Also, there won't be so many action pictures, for the conference at the opening session yesterday of its annual | three-dey meeting decided to bar all| camera men from foot ball playing fields. They will have to take thelr| pictures from boxes provided for that purpose The rumored tempest over eligibility rules failed to materialize yesterday, al- though faculty representatives admitted it was considered briefly. The only ac- tion taken was a slight revision in the matter of permanent records. There | no indication that the question dropped, however. All delegates agreed foot ball tickets must be cheaper next year, but lefi prices tor specific games up to the uni- versities involved. A committee, headed by Earl Camp- I University of Washington, last udied the broadcasting problem report today. After spending part of yesterday's meeting on the 1933 foot ball schedule, and the assignment of foot ball officials for 1932, delegates were unable to com- lete the tasks and turned to those detailed jobs zgain today College foot ball heores’ movie ca- ers may be dealt a fatal blow, faculty resentatives hinted, when it was an- nounced the subject would come up for action today. Athletes in some uni- versities have picked up vacation money in scoring touchdowns in front of movie amcras, to the dicapproval of several conference members, it was said. SCHWARTZ WILL PLAY WITH ALL-EAST TEAM Notre Dame Star Accepts Bid to‘ Complete Squad of 22 for San Francisco Game. t | By the Associated Press. EVANSTON, Ill, December 15.— ' Marchmont Schwartz, Notre Dame's H All-American halfback, has agreed to with the All-Star Eastern team inst the West in the Shrine Hospital °fit foot ball game at San Francisco New Year day. Schwartz’s ‘acceptance completed the team, which has 22 stars from the East and Middle West on its roster. The team will assemble at Northwest- crn University Saturday, receive in- structions and plays from Coaches Dick Hanley of Northwestern and Andy Kerr of Colgate and depart for the West the same night. Fifteen universities are represented on the team, which Coach Hanley believes is one of the strongest assembled for the East-West charity classic. complete roster: Ends—Orsi, Colgate; gen; Teeter, Syracuse. Tackles — Marvil and Engebretson, Northwestern; McMurdo, Pittsburgh, and Schiebel, Colgate Guards—Hoffman. Notre Dame; Hick- man, Tennessec: Haubrich, Ohio State, «ng Chambers, New York University. Centers—Miller, Purdue, and Mars- land, Colgate. Quarterbacks — Morton, and McEver, Tennessee. Halfbacks—Schwartz, Notre Dame; Purvis, Purdue; Rebholz, Wisconsin, and | Murphy, Fordham. Fullbacks—Russell, Northwestern, and Hinkle, Bucknell, ELON NOT TO PLAY G. W. ; Unable to Come Here February 2| for Basket Ball Tilt. Cancellation of the basket ball scheduled January The | Hewitt, Michi- Minnesota, and Ellert, Dartmouth, game | 2 between George | . | Washington and Elon Colleg> of North | WEST TEAM COMPLETED | Gridders on Squad That Will| East New Year Day. RANCISCO. December 15 (&), elections have completed foot ball team, which will m from the “Eist” y in the annual Shrine who with Dana X Bivle. will coach the West team, i ed Bob Kleckner, University of San Martin, Idaho, | y Gonzaga. guard, ¢ i Tepresent the district west of the Mi: sissippi, along with 11 others selected | by himself, and ecight from east of the Rockles, selected by Bible. First practice of the West team will be December 21, when Locey's selec- tions convene here to start training. Bible's squad will join them a day later. Varied Sports College Basket Ball. Butler, 36; Southern California, 16. Missouri, 25; St. Louis University, 23.‘ Brigham-Young, 39; Marquette, 32. Kansas State, 29; Washburn, 24, Professional Hockey. Duluth, 4; Tulsa, 2. Carolina has been announced. The Carolina team has found it im- | possible to make the trip, it was stated. | | O'Neill HOYAS WILL MAKE BASKET BALL BOW Play Mt. St. Mary’s Tonight. Colonials, Cards to See Action Tomorrow. OLLEGE basket ball fans may get their first look at George- town's team tonight when the Hoyas ope: their campaign against Mount St. Mary's on the Mc- Kinley Tech Tigh court. Play will get under way following completion of a preliminary between the Hoya fresh- men and Western High, starting at 7:30 o'clock. Just one letter winner of last Win- ter's squad, Capt. Dick King, forward, will be in the Hoyas' starting line-up. Three sophomores are listed to play, in Jim Murphy, center; Bill Connors, forward, and Joe O'Neill, guard. Jack Crowley, who did not play last Winter because of an operation, after holding forth on the yearling team the season before, is expected to pair with in the back court. Tommy Carolan, clever guard of the yearling team last season, and Vernon Murphy, a forward on the varsity squad in 1930-31. will also be ready to go. Freddy Mesmer, former G. U. star, has reinstalled the pro style of play. George Washington will open its season tomorrow night, facing Shenan- doah College on the Colonial court. Catholic University also will play to- morrow night, engaging Maryland State Normal 'at Brookland in the Cardinals’ first home gam — SAYS COLLEGE HEADS CAN CURB FOOT BALL Overemphasis of Game Blamed on Executives by New York City College President. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 15.—Freder- ick B. Robinson, president of the Col- lege of the City of New York, has placed responsibility for overemphasis in college foot ball upon his fellow ex- ecutives. “Any honest and courageous presi- dent who puts his foot down can de- termine just what will take place in his institution,” Dr. Robinson said in a statement. He charged that many of his fellows. “in a misguided desire to advertise their institutions and to glory in the fame of a victorious foot ball team” had winked at practices “wholly detrimental to the ethical standards of gentlemen and scholars.” He does not advocate the abolition of foot ball. It is a fine sport, he said, and needed, as are other physical con- tact games, in the complete education of a young man. Injuries and deaths. such as the large toll of this year, can be decreased by a proper supervision and further rules governing play, he believes, “It has not yet been demonstrated that foot ball is inherently so danger- ous that no method of play is safe and hat consequently the game should be abandoned,” he said. “But,” he continued, “the matter of greater intellectual and moral signifi- cance is the professionalizing of the game.” And on that ground Dr. Rob- inson calls his fellow presidents to stand and deliver. COLONIALS TO ELECT FOOT BALL CAPTAIN 22 Players Awarded Letters and Will Be Given Sweaters at Feed Next Month. George Washington University foot | ball players will elect the first Colonial | grid captain since 1929 at the annual banquet to be held early in January at the G. W. Varsity Club, 1609 K street Blackie Hoffman was the 1929 G. W. leader. Originally it was planned to hold thg banquet before Christmas, but it was postponed because of the Colonials’ par- | ticipation in the bencfit program at Griffith Stadium Saturday. Twenty-two players will be awarded the varsity letter-sweater at the ban- quet, it has been announced. They are Blackie Hoffman, yne Chambers, Ralph Dike, Frank Bfacki- stone, Walter Slaird, Fred Mulvey, Johnny Fenlon, Otts Kriemelmeyer, Joe Carter, Lee Carlin, Johnny Matin, Ker- mit Stewart, Bob Galloway, Finis Par- rish, Ras Nielsen, Boyd Hickman, Bar- ney Hale, John Asher, Wallace Wilson, Henry Clay, Jay Payne and Rudy Usnik. Manager Gerald Free will also get the varsity letter-sweater, HYATTSVILLIANS Tl{AVEL. HYATTSVILLE, Md., December 15.— Boy and girl basket ball teams of Hyattsville High School will go to Ca- tonsville tomorrow afternoon to engage the Catonsville High combinations. The games will be the first of an annual home-and-home series. N Disclosed as By the Associated Press. EW YORK, December 15.—The N ball at New York University | began nearly a year ago, but (Chick) Mcehan as coach to bring that fact to light. the univresity, in a formal statement issued in connection with Meehan's board of athletic control on January 6 had adopted a new athletic policy of Dr. Brown said the principal points in the new policy, effective with the in- were: The minimizing of the importance Spring foot ball practice, iooking for- ward to its possible final elimination. Fall preliminary practice to a period of not more than two weeks prior to the process of de-emphasizing foot it took the resignation of John F. Dr. Elmer E. Brown, chancellor of resignation, announced that the faculty “sports for sport’s sake.” coming freshman class in September, and the shortening of the duration of ‘The shortening of the duration of the opening of the regular acaggmic year. | w N. Y. U. Foot Ball Policy Meehan Leaves ‘The barring of all freshmen from preliminary Fall foot ball practice and the shortening of the freshman foot | ball season. The climination of all organized re- cruiting and subsidizing “as such terms have been understood popularly.” ‘The continuance of the present‘policy of giving every possible support and en couragement to the further development of intramural sports. Dr. Brown declared Meehan had ac- complished “great results” in his seven years as coach and said he (Meehan) would be remembered always with a “sense of appreciation and admiration | for what he has accomplished.” He added that the new athletic policy would be the determining factor in the appointment of a new coach. Speculation on pbssible successors to Meehan brought out the names of Andy Kerr, Colgate’s head coach; Jack Wein- | heimer, assistant to Meehan: Hpward (Jake) Cann, N. Y. U.s basket ball coach. and Jack Connor, also an as- slsiant to Meehan. ANOW Loox ( WHAT | AT A WOTTA LIFE FOR THE NEW KID. As Green as Their Jerseys Wilson Teachers” College BY TOM NTO the District basket ball l swirl comes -another quint to be licked or to wallop. It is the Wilson Teacliers' College, coached by Doc White, a former ball player, and greener at the moment than the color of its jer- seys, which, if you must know, are as green as a yard of sod from the Emerald Isle. Wilson took a trimming from Artie Boyd's Tech High quint ye terday after in ! Tech's 2 vm_as sweet as the wallopi Doc White's newcomers. a beating not new to the Teachers. Business, Western, Ben Franklin U. and American U. have socked and upset of vouths since the cage arted. But this is no bear story. Wilson is taking the wrong end of the club, no doubt of that, but let me tell you— and there are a lot of others who will agree — that the tutors are gaining experienco and confidence in every game fore taps sounded for basket semeste: hike for your shin- plasters when some one says the | Wilson boys are | not~ dangerous. They were tough yesbergay in spots. Once, with Red Summers leading the attack, the peda- gogues went tearing down the boarded playground in a neat passing flash which brought them a series of three futile but dangerous flings at the bas- ket. A moment later, with the fire of | wards sent the opposition defense down under their basket and then Gill shot a field goal from a 20-yard distance to make it stick. Summers, too, caught the spirit, and before the wobbling Tech defense could mold into a compact stand, an- other 20-yard shot went winging away into the crab net. Those flashes were short-lived, but they indicated that the Wilson boys, socked for a loss in every encounter of the season, still are fighters and are learning the tricks of the game swiftly. “We are green as grass” says Doc White. “We are new to the game. But look out next year. We are playing in the freshman ciass now, of course, and our competi- tion' will be sterner next season. But so will my boys.” 1 Tech rolled up a nifty lead in the first half and then sent in its second- string quint. But it soon returned the varsity when the Green and White be- gan peppering the basket. There is no_telling what the boys [ are ‘;flng to do before the ball hits. Of the 40 eligibles at the school 26 came out for basket ball. Twelve boys were retained for the quint, and and all are still battling for a var- sity berth. And let me tell you that these Tech and Wilson boys play a flashy game of | toss the apple. Tech has a neat pass- | ing attack, one which functions like a clock and is dangerous until the ball is | knocked out. It starts short and zips | down the floor in but a few flips, end- irg up with a forward poking it up straight ahead. | wison's atladi s ambition still aflame, the Wilson for- | ppy, naiurally, | Basketers Look to Future. DOERER and its defense is still in that state of bewilderment displayed by all green ag- gations. But there is so much fight and fire in the Tutors’ group that it dangerous at all times, despite this \anaicap. There is something to a basket ball combat which stamps it as being the nobility of amateur sport. Its back- ground and surroundings are of the most simple sort. Sans frills, shouts, bally hooey and the growing element of player danger in foot ball. boxing, hockey and wres- game. But it may never pay ai the gate be- cause of its lack of luster and crowd Your errant cor- respondent took his first squint at | a cage combat in | several years yesterday. Which is tough for yours truly and not the court game, | because he finds that the sport, once a little tough, has been purified until personal fouls are getting very scarce. There was a day when a pair of amateur teams came trotting onto the floor padded with not a few boys who had received their checks at the office, and who had come to work with bombs in their hands and instructions to tap the referee on the head with a black- | jack when he turned to accept a five- |spot from an interested spectator in the stands. | Don’'t kid me, either, and say that I'm yodeling over the wrong | fence, because I am not. I'll take | ¥ou back but a few years and only a few miles away when I want to back up a few things. But there is no sense in disturbing sleeping dogs. Particularly no reason when college and high school basket ball has grown tc become one of the | cleanest of all schoolboy sports. If the independent clubs are play- | dng as cleanly and with the same floor | | sportsmanship as displayed by these | |two teams I watched yesterday, let me | tell you that you are missing real sport |in not parking for an evening at one | of the District tussles. | But there must be plenty of basket | ball cash customers or there would not be such a flock of basket ball teams in | the District. And it is not hard to see | why the game is beginning to com- | mand such attention in this bailiwick. | | A boy must keep in top shape to keep |in the game, and for that reason alone | it is one of the finest schoolboy sports. | Wnat the sport lacks in crowd ap- |peal it most assuredly has in sports- manship. | DOYLE IS TECH SPEAKER Will Give Principal Address at Banquet to Grid Squad. | Henry Grattan Doyle, dean of men at George Washington University, will be [ the principal speaker at the annual | | dinner in honor of the McKinley Tech | High School foot ball squad to be given | Thursday night in the school dining gor;\ under auspices of the Circle T ub. Coach Hap Hardell will present mem- bers of the Tech squad, which this year | won the public high school title for the school for the fourth straight year | ‘ith gold foot balls. Letters, however, will not be distributed until Friday “i an assembly at the school. | Cavanaugh, TOM DOERER WE'RE GREEN GOODS THIS SEASON - BUT WATCH 00T FOR US NEXT YEAR WHITE, WHO S COACHING WILSON'S FIRST BASKET QUINT RED SUMMERS FORMER WESTERN HIGH PLAYER IS QGOING GOooD WITH WILSoN RED RESEMBLES A CHRISTMAS 5o-DECORATION (N “® THAT GREEN SUIT .- WELL, AND DID TECHS BOY WHEELER. PASS WILSON Oizzy... LONG JM REED - TECH ONE, GILL SKOTA 20-YD. FIELD S0AL WHILE T, N Gltlsscneaov0 ECH DEFENSE IF\T COuLD BE pDONE..... Tou Dorren — Tacy Gym. SCHOOLS LOSE TOSSERS AIMS TO KEEP PRO TEAM Advisory Marks to Affect Several Portsmouth St Public High Squads. | Business will lose Billy Harris, guard | dependable, and Tony Mastromarino, and Central may have to get along without one or two of its players, but the Eastern. Tech and Western squads probably will not be affected by the scholastic_marks for the advisory end- ing last Friday, which will be in the hands of the students tomorrow. It had been feared that Harris' loss would be serious to Business, but Huck his successor, has been showing so well that Coach Lynn Woodworth is not at all pessimistic over the situation. | ng to Make Up Big Deficit of Two Seasons. PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, December 15 #)—A committee of local manufac- . business men and directors of er of Commerce yesterday stack-selling campaign to assure the continuance of the Ports- ans as a member of the ssional Foot Ball League. mittee, headed by Homer | Selby, vice president of the Selby Shoe Co., appealed to foot ball fans to sub- | scribe for the stock. The Spartans fin- ished the 1931 season with a deficit of more than $17,000 and Harry Snyder, club president. said that last year's deficit of $30,000 remains unpaid. “FLORSHEIMS!” Start the smart, satisfactory habit of wearing ‘em, this Xmas! The world's best-looking men’s sho More miles of service per dollar! Styles to suit every foot and taste. Heavy, medium or light Weight oxfords. 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