Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1931, Page 16

B4 PORTS, STAR, WASHINGT § ’ SPORT T3 Foot Ball as a Game Is Absolved of Blame fo SCHOOLS, PARENTS HELD TO SHARE RESPONSIBILITY Need for Proper Supervision Stressed by Rules Chairman, Who Asserts “Most Valuable of Sports Must Not Be Emasculated.” oot elevens A large mes of re- injuries was placed on authorities by E. K. Hall, chairman of the the ional Collegiate At By the Ascoclated Press EW YORK, December 31 N sponsibility for ball's weighty toll in dea and in charge of organized and the parents of sandlot players of National Foot Ball Rules Commit- | tee, in his annual report t Associati In every aspect exce inder e foot b: Bponse: The ¢ however commit- action by almost 50 deaths d son indicate need lation. He did not possible new rules Cannot Be Made “Safe.” Hall exp! had no expe ball “safe’ occasionally sport, he stamina and er from a minimu “The respo the playe: whether a boy should the game must rest ganized school and those in authorit organized play and ground games, in the absence of other authority, responsibility would seem to rest on the parents of the boys.” Commenting on information already gathered regarding foot ball deaths Hall said that in 150 college members of the N. C. A. A. only two deaths had occurred, one from a brain injury due to a collision, a type of accident fre- quent but seldom fatal, and the other from a spinal injury suffered in an ordinary tackle Lack of Supervision Costly. Six deaths, he said, occurred in minor college or normal school games The rest were about evenly divided among boys on high scheol elevens, in some instances under little or no super- vision, and boys in unorganized games under no supervision at all. He noted that in the list of deaths blamed on the game was th year-old boy who chased h under a motor truck; others from neg- lected scratches that into 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. discuss or the committee foot that of for ild be freed the care of decision as to participate in the case of or-| llege teams, on he said. “For un- sandlot or play- the developed APT. JOE BLACKBURN has been a familiar figure about the Georgetown water front for 50 years Vigilant foot ball team, three times independent champion of the Dis- trict, will tackle the All ar Scho- today for the second time season. Vigila won a hard battle in their first meeting. In a preliminary Hall Stars, 140-pound | champions of the District, will en- gage Waverly for the city light- | weight title. Among those expected to see action for the All-Star Scholastics are Walter Parker, Cuppy Farmer, Shaggy Rawlings, Dolph Rawlings Boe, Babbington, Stack, Piles, Ham- | lton, McBride, Pete, Howell, Regis | and Gripp. | Cardinals of Alexandria beat Y. M., C. A Stalwarts at_basket Cards used Williams, Hayden, isle, Roberts and Patterson. alwarts were represented by Al- on, Hunsche, Grieve, McLaren, Eliason, Helmuth and Moffett | Holmeads are leading the Arcade | Duckpin League race, and Simmons of Laborites, with 107-1, has high average. Buck Becker is the lone left- hander on the Washington pitching st afl. Jimmy Fleld, J. Riston, Johnny Redecker, Fred Eckstein, Pop Mey- ers, Harry Krauss, George Scharf, George Whitney, Bob Bryson, Abe Langtry, Judge Howard, Alec Dun- bar, Jimmy Smith, Danny O’Don- | nell and Harry Wolstenholme are among well known figures in bowling | circles here. several where mino given prompt atte a boy, suffering ars from app! . concealed 1is coach, entered a game, | a ruptured appendix ere were two major college atalities, none in professional foot ball no scrious injurles in private school | ball, where supervision is of the highest type. poisoning fes were not and one where blood Corrective Processes Active. tted that in some quarters d gotten out of its proper in academic life, had occasionally e business instead of a ad_been dominated by public 0 ed graduates, place a whoiesome and val- le of sports today, he said, and its faults are not so and cannot last. | The consciousiy taught both v ooker are far reaching Summing up the de- s a game to be preserved. It provide wholesome sport for f all ages, playing in their proper and under suitable supervision. st be kept free from all unneces- and unreasonable hazards, but it ust not be emasculated. JUST A SECOND FROM VICTORY, TERPS LOSE Wisconsin Long Shot Ties Score and Badgers Then Win in Overtime, 32 to 30. ! class It n MADISON, Wis., Deceraber 31.—Uni- versity of Maryland came within a sec- ond of beating Wisconsin at basket ball in a thrilling game last night, but lost out in an extra period, 30 to 32. A long shot by Nelson, who had J\IS',‘ been_inserted in the line-up, enabled the Badgers to tie the score at 26-all in | the final second of regulation play. Chalmers put the Old Liners ahead with a two-pointer to start the overtime | period, but Wisconsin tied the score and | 2 then shot to the front, 30 to 28, on two | baskets made in rapid succession by | Capt. Steen. Then, after Chalmers | again tied the score, Steen once more e through with a floor goal, which the Badgers victory. Ed Ronkin, with 10 points, was high scorer for Maryland. He also played a ading part in the Old Liners’ passing cribed as the best ever seen in g isconsin field house. Summary Wisconsin (32) GF Maryland (30) G t 10 Chalmers, 13 Chase. { Ronkin Pt 0 s 0 0 0 0 232 Referce—Mr. Schommer (Chicago). Kearns (De Paul). TOP FLIGHT NOT LISTED | Whitney Has Not Declared Racer for Kentucky Derby. NEW YORK, December 31 (%) Whether Top Fiight, champion 2-year- | old and leading money winner of the | year, will be entered in the Kentucky | Derby has not been decided by the| filly's owner, C. V. Whitney, and her | trainer, Tom Heal WEATHER STOPS SKATERS | | Derby Postponed First Time in 40 Years. CHICAGO, December 31 (#) —Chi- cago skaters never will forgive 1931 The temperatures have been too high for skating and even the Sleipner Ath- lectic Club was forced to postpone its annual ice skating Derby for the first time in 40 years. Chicago WILSON IN GOLF FINAL. PINEHURST, N. C., December 31 (#). | —George T. Dunlap of New York and | Richard Wilson of Southern Pines, &| Georgetown student, won their semi- final matches in the Midwinter golf tournament. Dunlap defeated Eric D. | Thomson, Springfield, Mass, 4 and 3, tertainment and other features also and Wilson eliminated Richard Chap- man, Greenwich, Conn,, 5 and 4. 1 THE SPORTLIGHT | BY Wave rolls tomorrow ojan Tornado of Callf What ¢ as Tulane against the team that beat Notre Dame and that scored around 150 points against such | strong teams as Oregon, Georgla and | Washington with one of the most pow- erful offensive drives foot ball has ever known? 1 saw Tulane beat Georgia around middle of November and on that afternoon Athens Tulane the field with of the HE Green ge th uthern yrnia ance at upon 1 one e en ‘Wave moved into ac out the n with ong a weak spot first-string gt it will take more than first- string strength to stand up under the hard and powerful hammering of that Southern California attack with St ¥ Musick and Mal- a e mne and rescrves on hand that a is the hardest proble It com down tc npower. Southern Cali- for two nd manpower Yox: may Tecall Georgia Tech gave t battle for the first th w the score was 7 to 6. But the heavier, harder pounding of the Cali- fornia squad finally broke down Te ch's defense in the last quarter. Up to that had been just about an even expect to see Tulane give the Trojans an even battle as long as their first team can stand the hammering— especially if Jerry Dalrymple is in shape to go the route. This should mean a close battle for the first two periods and possibly the third ‘Whether Tulane will have the re- serve to check Southern California’s power down the strength is another matter. Even Notre Dame didn't have mzinservn strength left u.uex' Hoftman, GRANTLAND RIC Banas, Culver and others had been ced out by the Westerner's last bat- drive. \ere is no question that Southern fornia one of the great offen- sive foot ball teams of all time. Once is allowed to get under headway, it | has all the elements of an avalanche | ider full headway. But 1t is still com- | d of human beings and there are | till no supermen around. th nection it might be remem- | t Tulane is no gentle zephyr | on its own. The Green line is fast and | strong. Dalrymple and Haynes are two | ,”' the ation’s finest ends. Dawson, Zim 1, Payne and Felts are four | hard-running backs with excep- | onal passing and kicking strength. If Southern California can put on another massacre against uthern team there will no longer | be any question as to what constitutes the best foot ball team in the country. | But unless Tulane has slipped backward ral notches from its mid-November | 1 1 can see no reason for any wild | away, and if most of Tulane’s first | igers can go the route it should be | a foot ball game all the way P to 1931 the South has had a big margin over the Far West in these Rose Bowl battles, with three vic- tories and a tie out of four starts. So the West Coast is all set to collect as much revenge 2s it can carry away in one year. Gi crushing defeat by U. 8. C. and Georgia Tech's over- | throw by California have given the West the jump this on and now Southern California has strong hopes of | flattening out the Green Wave and re- | |{ducing it to a gentle ripple. But the | South has been on the under-dog_ side before, with some astonishing results. There Will be two of the best back- | fields of the year in action tomorrow, | with Tulane carrying the greater speed |and Southern California the greater {power. Tulane should also have the better of the passing game. It will be largely a matter of Tulane’s forward wall standing up under the hammering it will have to take, and the majority of coaches who have seen Southern Cal- ifornia play don't believe Tulane has | the man power and the reserve strength | 3! to stand any such heavy and contin- ued barrage all afternoon. | this Far | ¥ TOPPLING 0 OF THE PALE | PRYS wHo GavE WHITE AND H\S TROLPE PLEAH\/ OF BATTLE — MAX 15T A SHINING STAR N THE BVERAING S TAR. TOUVRNEY. .. TOP-NOTCHERS. JACK OF THE CONNECTICOT ALL- STARS JAKKS CIGAR IS, AS FAMOUS AS THE ONE SMOKED 8Y THAT BIG MAN FRoM THE Soutd- AND How HE CLIPPED THE HEAD PIN YESTERIA WAy ARLENTY “Tor D OERE . LUCKY STRIKE ALLEYS C Tackles Alumni Today and Will Travel to Hyattsville for Contest Tomorrow. Central High School's basket ball team, which was to face Hyattsville High's tossers this afternoon in the Maryland town, will be hot after vic- tory over its alumni in their annual game tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock on the girls court at Central. The battle with the grads will feature the twenty- second annual reunion of the Central Alumni Assoclation. Other sports events listed will in- clude encounters between graduate and undergraduate teams in girls rifie from 2 to 3:15 o'clock, girls swimming at 2:30 o'clock, boys swimming at 3 o'clock and hoys rifle from 3:15 to 4:30 o'clock. A meeting of the alumni, dancing, en- have been arranged Central’s undergraduate team is es- pecially keen for a win over the alumni in basket ball because the grads have been putting the bees on the school | team in recent seasons. The old boys have arranged to place a strong team on the court, but the undergraduate, | with what appears to be one of the best teams Central has had in recent years is confident of furnishing stout battling. ENTRAL HIGH QUINT ;!HUNT IN SEMI-FINAL IS KEEPING ON MOVE = OF BOYS’ NET EVENT iD' C. Lad Beats Winslow in Na- | final tional Tournament—Faces Kaufman Today. BALTIMORE, Md., December 81— MR, BILLTATO N WHO HAS THE N PHYSIQUE OF r 1‘931;}7*& —By TOM DOERER Jim e Lonpos \F A MR, CLARKE. WHo Take S 0P TwO ALLEYS —HE WAS VERY AoT AT TIMES (N YESTERDPAY'S MATCH Look\T THAT MAd TIMBE ( RIS b A GALLERY To TICKLE ANY PROMOTER WATCHED THE EVEQTS, AR TERNOON AND BEVENING .- .- Penn’s New Plan of Handling Sports Declared Successful; Gopher Poll By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, December 31 —Re- sults thus far have justified the institution of the “Gates plan” of faculty control of athletics at the University df Pennsylvania, Dr. Thomas Gates, university president and sponsor of the plan, told members of the National Collegiate Athletic Asso- ciation today. The “Gates plan,” which, briefly, put the management of the school’s ath- letics entirely in the faculty hands, even to the appointm nlar faculty member as head foot ball coach, has been eyed with great interest by other schools. If successful, the general be- lief is it will be widely adopted. “We had this year a wider participa- tion in sport among the whole student asis Backs Emph headquarters with a salaried executive | to devote his entire time to its affair He asked also that the association ap- point representatives to confer with representatives of other sports asso- ciations to find methods to promote more uniform definitions of amateur practice. Dr. Kennedy expressed full confi- dence that the National Foot Ball Rules Committee would do everything possible to reduce the number of in- Jjuries and deaths that marred the 1931 | season. | M[AJ. JOHN L. GRIFFITH, athletic | of the Western Conference, reporting on the re- sultsof 8 survey made at the Univer: | of Minnesota, disclosed that the m: | jority of the '10,000 persons whose at- | commissioner titude toward intercollegiate sport were | recorded believed athletics should be talities by Hall Report AWARD TO BERLINGER Voted Outstanding American Ath- lete and Sportsman for 1931. NEW YORK, December 31 (B).— Barney Berlinger, former Pennsylvania all-around star, has been voted the out- standing American athiete and sports- man of 1931 by the Committee of 600 which awards the James E. Sullivan memorial medal. He gained only a 2- yote margin over Helene Madison, Seattle swimming celebrity. Picking from a list of more than 100, | the jury of sports leaders gave Berlinger | 424 votes and Miss Madison 422. Mrs. Helen Wills Moody took third place. The honor went to Bobby Jones last year. The gold medal is to be presented to Berlinger later. BOYS’ CLUB STAGES HOME-COMING NIGHT “Graduates” Battle Regulars Basket Ball—B. Y. P. U. Schedule Listed.- in Boys' Club unlimited quint will face a basket ball team composed of “grad- uates” of the club tonight at 8 o'clock, on the club court. It will be the high spot of the annual home-coming pro- gram at the club Ted Cappeli, Dick Keefer, Joe Lynch and George La are among some of those listed to play for the “old boys.” Second-half play in the Baptist Young Pecple’s Union Court Leagte will open January 11 and continue through February 29. All games will be played at Macfarland Junior High. The schedule: January 11 F st vs Petworth, Maryland AV Plav-off between winners of e Worth February 291 first and second Harlan McCord and Joe American P League listed to show their wares for Penzoil Professionals Cleveland, who meet Skinker Eagles Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Boys' Club. Washington Silents have booked a game with the National Guard team at Laurel for Sunday at 4 p.m. and with Bolling Field tossers for next Thursday | on the Bolling Field Court. Al Eckert, Adams, former performers, are Summaries Shade Shop, 33; Delaware & Hud- son, 12 | Ross Jewelers, 24; Peerless, 17. | Potomac Boat Club, 35; Y. M. C. AL 2 Frederick (Md.) Silents, 23; Wash- ington Silents, 22 Virginians, 29: McLean | _Western Flashes (115 pounds), | Nativity Hornets, 23 St. Stephen’s, 32 United Typewriter ' Grays, Washington, 26. remonts, 27; “Y” Flashes, 30. 30; Fort | Boys' Club, 20. Games with 145-pound quints are sought by Swann's Service team. Call | Adams 2901. == | Fairlawn basketers are after tilts with | 130-pound fives. Atlantic 0823 between 6and 7 pm. JOHNSON'S BIRDS WIN | | Walter's Rhode Island Reds Get | Prizes at Smithburg Show. HAGERSTOWN, December 31 —Wal- ter Johnson, manager of the Washing- | ton base ball club, won two firsts and a of | 30; | tecond on his Rhode Island Red entries | Good Weather Promised for [ | Record Crowd of 85,000 | at Game Tomorrow. | e P ! BY PAUL ZIMMERMAN, ‘ Assoclated Press Sports Writer. ASADENA, Calif,, Decemer 31.— ‘Two great gridiron elevens stood at the portal of a new year to- day, awaiting the morrow when tima throws open the door to the sev- enteenth annual Rose Tournament foot ball game. A record crowd of some 85,000 was expected to witness the intersectronat clash, in which Southern Californis is favored to turn back Tulane. The fact that no bulwark has stopned. the goalward rushes of Tulane’s Green Wave this season failed to daunt either Coach Howard Jones' Trojans or the betting gentry who spoke freely of 2-to-1 and 3-to-1 odds. Although the expert sentiment fa- vored the West's own, Coach Bernie Bierman's Southern Conference cham- pions had many supporters who believed the warriors of Troy were in for their longest afternoon since little St. Mary’s inaugurated the 1931 season by beating them, 13 to 7. Reserve power almost without emd and a weight advantage of almost six pounds to the man was om the Trojan side of the ledger. Good old Southern determination, which has had much to do with the impressive record of three wins and a tie in the four previous appearances here of teams from below the Mason and Dixom lne, not to mention lots of deception, favored i the gentlemen from New Orleans. Power Versus Passing. Defensively and offensively, the two aggregations match up on & par. Southern California has done most of its yard gaining and scoring by virtue of much power. Tulane has depended more on a superb passing attack. The majority of the touchdowns ascored against each aggregation have been through the air. The only basis of comparison of op- ponents is found in the Georgia and Washington State games, which swing | heavily toward the Pacific Coast Con- | ference champions. Southern California | defeated Washington State, 38 to 6. | Tulane trimmed the Cougars, 28 to 14. | The Trojans walloped Georgia, 60 to 0. The Greenies took the Bulldogs, 20 to 7. Both mentors promised their teams would be in the finest condition for the | contest. Each was pessimistic, predict- ing a close game. The Greenies and Southern Cali- | fornia’s team will be sent through final | light workouts on the firm Rose Bawl sod_this afternoon. ‘The prospects were good for a warm, clear day for the game, considered con- | structive to both teams. | Probable Starting Line-Upe. Wt. Tulane. Position. 180 Haynes ....L.E.. 220 Cunning'm 0 Scafide _Q—\l-: 9 5 210 Upton .. 175 Dalrymple 165 Dawson 176 Zim'rman 165 Glover 185 Pelts Officials—Herbert Dana Walter Powell (Wiseonsin Dunn_(Michigan State), he . E. McBride (Missourt Valley), | | it W0 (Nebri Judge. BIG NEW YEAR DAY SPORTS BILL AT “Y” | body than ever before,” Dr. Gates said. | continued as at present with many in “By the end of this first year in Which | fayor of increasing the emphasis. our plan has been in effect, we shall| The survey included 850 members of have had several hundred formally or- | the faculty, 4,000 students, college and ganized teams competing in different | yniversity presidents, some 700 men ai the Smithsburg, Md., Poultry Show, | held at the high school. Johnson spent two day: of Lancelot Jacques, jr., Program to Include Basket Ball, as the guest | Bowling, Billiards, Swimming, Smithsburg, branches of sport. “We look forward to the shortening who won varsity letters at Minnesota, | a sampling of alumni, high school exec- Gilbert Hunt, District of Columbla and | of the foot ball season to six or seven | utives, newspaper editors, parents of Middle Atlantic boy _tennis singles champion, was to face Frank Kaufman of Baltimore in one of the semi-final matches of the national indoor boys’ | championships this afternoon on the | Fifth Regiment Armory courts | pattle was to start at | today | Norman Friedman, New York, were to | The Early | and | 2" o'clock Howard Schein, Newark, meet in the other semi-final, | Hunt, séeded No. 1, gained the semi- | yesterday by conquering Bill | Winslow of South Orange, N. J.. in a rousing 8—8, 7—5 struggle. After win- ing a bruising battle in the first set, Hunt came back to the second after tralling 1—5 with Winslow need- ing only two points to triumph. Kaufman scored an upset win to gain his semi-final brackets, vanquish- ing Lyman Crossman, White Plains, | N. Y. Hunt's doubles partner, 6—3, | 56, 9—1. [ | Alexandria Notes ALEXANDRIA, Va, December 31— Earl Cronin and Hardy Gensmere have been signed by Coach Jeff Williams to Tech gained revenge for defeats of Perform with his St. Mary's Lyceum the last two seasons when. the Gray undergraduate quint downed a McKin- | ley alumni combination, 30 to 29, in their annual game yesterday. Waverly Wheeler tossed a foul shot in the final 30 seconds of play to give the undergrads victory in just about as exciting & game as you would want to | see. It was a costly triumph, though, as Capt. fered a severely sprained ankle. Summary: ‘Tech (30) Alumn! (29). G F.Pts 1 19 i suscoomos Wer Koons, Totals......] Totals Varied Sports BAS Wisconsin, 3 period) Kentucky, 48; Marshall College, 16. DePauw, 26; Indiana, 19. Carleton, 33: Chicago, 22 Stanford, 43; Oregon State, 32. Idaho, 41; Montana, 27 Pittsburgh, 29; Southern California, ET BALL. Maryland, 30 (extra 26. Washington State, 43; Gonzaga, 18. PRO. HOCKEY. Philadelphia, 2; Boston, 0. St. Louis, 1; Buffalo, 0. Chicago, 2; Duluth, 1. Kansas City, 1; Tulsa, 0. New York Tigers, 3; Springfield In- dians, 1. North Dakota, 27; Superior, Wis., Teachers, 25. Southwest Oklahoma Teachers, 35; Simmons U.. 28 Colorado Teachers, 31; Utah, 27. Montana State Alumni, 57; Brigham Ycung, 46. LUtah Aggies, 36; Pasadena Majors, College of Puget Sound, 28; Wash- | booked a Young Men's Institute, 37; (Copyright. 1931, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) ington, 64 Univer- ity of California, 20. ' o quint. Fraters, who won the Capital City | Unlimited Foot Ball League title, plan to celebate with a banquet Januay 6 at the George Mason Hotel Dr. Carl | | T. Dreifus, coach of the Fraters, has been made chairm: St. of the committee. Mary’s Celtics’ 1931 base ball Artie Willison, guard, suf-|team will be the guests of Manager Charley Corbett tomorrow night at & banquet at 314 South Pitt street at 9 o'clock. A basket ball dance will be held by | sigma Lambda Nu Praternity tomorrow night at 10:30 o'clock in Elks' Hall to raise funds for the purchase of new uniforms and other equipment. St. Mary's Lyceum i cagers have game with Georgetown for Armory Hall January 16 as a benefit | for the Children's Home and Day | Nursery operating fund. Mary Carne, manager of the Cru- | saders, Is after games with senior girls’ basket ball teams. She may be Jeached | at Alexandria 1384. | Alexandria High's basket ball candi- dates will resume work on the court Monday. | John Watt, manager of the Virginia Five, is anxious to book games with unlimited teams. Call Alexandria 2020-J between 6 and 7:30 p.m. i KENTUCKY DERBY MAY 7 Race Classic Listed One Week Be- fore Pimlico Preakness. LOUISVILLE, Ky., December 31 (). | —The 1932 Kentucky Derby will be run | May 7, during the Spring meet at Churchill Downs here. The Kentucky State Racing Commission has sanc- | tloned the meet for April 30 to May 21, inclusive. This will be one week before the run ning of the Pimlico Preakness. | The Latonia and the Lexington tracks did not ask for racing dates, but it was indicated they would do so at the next meeting. games in the near future, with a much horter practice period. We look for- ard to the elimination from our sched- ules of games with institutions much smailer than our own. “In arranging our schedules for the future, we are going to attempt to for- get gate receipts. We shall place no team on our schedule because of the gate involved of an abnormal desire of the public to see us pitted against some particular team. “It is clear to me that the time has come for general disarmament among colleges and universities. The first ideal, in my opinion, is to subordinate the desire for victory to the desire to play the game honestly and in ac- ordance with the best amsteur stand- ards.” R. GATES declared himsclf op- | posed to foot ball as a means of raising funds for charity, saying it “commercialized the game more thar ever and does not raise much mo In his annual address Dr. CI Kennedy, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, sug- gested that some provision be made ey arles for more continuously detailed execu- tive administration than at present. He sald that for a period of about 18 months before each set of Olympic games the association should maintain Basket Ball Tips BY SOL METZGER. Coach Ed Wachter, Harvard's bas- ket ball mentor, uses this effective double fake pass on a floor play to overcome a strong man-to-man de- fense. Guard (5) starts his team- mates into action by bounce-passing to center (1) at the free throw line. As he throws the ball, 5 cuts sharp- ly by 1 for the basket at the same time as 4 rushes around 1 on the ELRS PR other side. As they pass 1, left for- ward (3) rushes from his corner to & position in front of 1 and there takes a pass from 1. No. 3 immediately makes a long shot for the basket. Sometimes such long shots score, but the real pur- pose of this one is to get the ball to a point near the basket where 5,4 2 and 1 have already arrived and are in a position to retrieve it for a close- up shot. (Copyright, 19312 | athletes and of non-athletes, and sev- | eral thousand taxpayers having no con- nection with the university. On the question as to whether ath- letics were overemphasized, 79 per cent of the faculty, 94 per cent of the | athletes, 84 per cent of the alumni, 89 per cent of the high school executives, | 79 per cent of the editors and 84 per | cent of the parents said “No.” WALTER GEGAN IS DEAD Ex-G. U. and Olympic Athlete Suc- cumbs Following Operation. WEST ORANGE, N. J, December 31 (#).—Walter Gegan, former George- town athlete and a member of the United States track and field team at the 1928 Olympic games at Am- sterdam, dled at his home here last ! night following an operation for a carbuncle on his neck. Gegan competed for the New York Athletic Club for the past several years. He represented the United States in the Olympic 3,000-meter Steeplechase at Amsterdam, but failed to place. P CRAVEN WINS AT BOXING. | WAYNE, Pa., December 31.—Cadet Edgar L. Craven, jr, son of Mr. and L. Craven, 3512 Albemarle street, Washington, D. C., has won the Junior featherweight boxing champion- ship at Valley Forge Military Academy. He defeated four opponents in his battle to the title. 'BASE BALL HOLDING OWN, SAYS HEYDLER ;Financial Setback Outweighed by Game's Growth Here and Abroad, He Points Out. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 31.—“Base ball lost no ground in 1931,” says John Heydler, president of the Natlonal League. “It not only held its own as our foremost American game, but it | made great strides in countries to the | south of us, and particularly in far-off | Japan, | “It is true, our professional game suf- | fered financial set-backs. The amateur, sandlot, semi. and especially the |'boys’ game enjoyed a countrywide re- | vival. None of the park authorities of | our big cities could begin to meet the demand for base ball diamonds | ' “Forgetting our losses in dollars, and | thinking alone of the sport and its for- ward steps, I am sure | League can well feel gratified with the ’xe«u!ts of its fifty-sixth season. “Base ball is ever the game of the | optimist. Always next year looks better | than the last. And so, although we are | preparing to take a reef in our financial | sails, we are nevertheless looking for- | ward to the base ball season of 1932, confident in the belief that by the time | another world series is won and lost, | we all will have weathered the storm.” THE LISTENING POST BY WALTER TRUMBULL T is interesting to hear that the players at Southern California consider Nesbit of Washington the best end they have seen all season. They put Stone of California in second place as a wing man, and speak highly, of Kosky 0f Notre Dame and Colvin | of Stanford. They have still to get a |look at the Tulane ends, and we can assure them that they might have had keen regard for Orsi of Colgate, if they | had played against him. The Trojans like Yarr of Notre Dame | at center, Hurley of Washington State |at guard, Hufford of Washington, | Schwartz of Notre Dame, Moe of Oregon State and Gill of California in the | backfield. ICHIGAN is going to have a tough foot ball schedule next year, The ‘Wolverines are scheduled to play Michigan State, Northwestern, Ohio State, Princeton, Illinois, Chicago, Indiana and Minnesota. Pittsburgh and Army, it is hard to see |how they could get more Autumn exercise. | Marquette had a sophomore foot ball team this season, which should mean that it will be strong again next year. A man very often plays his best foot ball as a junior. He has had varsity experience, still retains his ambition, and is not distracted, as a senior is, by concern over the future. OE JACOBS is again talking loudly about signing for a Schmeling- Walker bout in Chicago. The only ply William F. Carey makes to that is, if steel-ribbed contracts are worth any- | thing Schmeling will enter his next | bout_ under the promotion of Madison | Square Garden, wherever it is held. +Ernie Schaaf goes on knocking over opponents. Schaaf has grown to a pugi- | listic height where none of the good | ones care to associate with him inside | the ropes. A Schaaf-Carnera bout would | | draw, but Primo never was in favor of | | it. | _ Schmeling wants to fight Walker and Dempsey, in preference to Schaaf and | Sharkey. And why should he be expect- | | ed to take any more chances than he is obliged to take? He is not in the game wentirely for his health. | ETE REILLY is a clever handler of | fighters and an excellent judge of | opponents. Pete never lets any man | of his battle a fighter he has not seen. | fighter just how to fight. He does this | in training, not after his man is in the ring. Very sensibly, Reilly says that the | only thing you can do for a fighter in the ring 15 to sponge him off and rate him along, not let him fight himself | out. Pete Rellly never made any mis- | takes with Jack Delaney, and he has made none with Bat Battalino. | (Copyright. 1931, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) with whom he has done much fox hunt- | the National | | in Wrestling and Fencing. A varied all-day sports program, rang- |ing from fencing to chess, will feature the annual New Year day celebratiom of the Y. M. C. A. at the Central “¥™ Building,1736 G street. The general public is invited. Adult athletic activities will begin in | the afternoon after a morning devoted to champlonship tournaments in the boys' department. The boys will seek title honors in pool, billiards, camelat, ring-o-let, chess, checkers, boxing and swimming. A contest, between the Boys' Club and “Y" will be played. | _Bowling matches between the Lions | Club and Southeastern University and | between staffs of the Y. M. and Y. W. | C. A, will start at 2:30 o’clock. | The local and Richmond “Y” volley | ball teams will compete at 2:40. | _ Swimming exhibitions will be held at 3 o'clock, with a girls’ team from the | Y. W. C. A participating. Commodore W. E. Longfellow of the Red Crass will give a “wet" lecture. These events will be staged in the men’s pool. At 4 o'clock the Baltimore and Wash- ington “Y" basket ball teams will battle in the men’'s gym, with local “Y" gym- nasts performing between halves. W. B. Mundell, chess wizard, will give ar: exhibition of simultaneous chess and | checker playing at 4:30 in the main | lcbby. A prize will be awarded the first challenger defeating Mundell. The new “Y” fenaing team, eoached by Maj. E. L. Dyer, U. 8. A, retired, | will demonstrate its skill at 5 o’elock. ‘There will be wrestling bouts at §: o’'clock under the direction of Coach | W. Kirchman. vy bask A of The final event will be a bo; ball game between the Burns A. C. the Y. M. C. A. Eagles. OLD ORDER PREVAILS Play for Frosh Favored Over Intramurals. NEW YORK, December 31 (#).—Fag+ |ulty advisers, athletic directors and graduate managers, in a forum of the | National Collegiate Athletic Association, voted down a proposal to abolish inter~ collegiate competition ;monf freshmen favor of an intram: program. The vote was 28 to 25. S S PRI STILL SEEKING COACHES Towa and Princeton Inspecting Field at Foot Ball Meeting, NEW YORK, December 31 (#).—Rep= resentatives of the athletic departments of the University of Iows and Prince- ton are prominent at the gathering of foot ball coaches here, both schools seeking new gridiron mentors. Neither could -report any definite progress, although Dr, Fred Lauer, ath- Intercollegiate Unless they substituted Notre Dame, | If Reflly thinks his man can win he |letic director at Tows, said he hoped to Southern California, Tulane, Tennessee, | makes the match. Then he tells his|have some definite announcement to- morrow. T. J. Davies, supervisor of sports at Princeton, and who headed the Tiger scouting delegation, had no comment to make, YANKEE CHESSMAN DRAWS. HASTINGS, England, December 31 (#)—In the third round in the inter- national chess masters’ tournament I. Kashdan, Unlted States, drew with 8. Flohr of Caechoslovakia. S