Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1932, Page 39

(4 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. | Comics and Classified WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8§, 1932. PAGE D--1 Johnson Sees Griffs in Thick of Fight : Gallaudet Five'in Action Here Tonight CLUB T0 BE GREAT, MANAGER'S BELIEF Much Improved, to Be Flag Contender All Way, Says Pilot in Air Talk. BY JOHN B. KELLER. ASHINGTON will have a \;\I better-looking base ball club this year than last and one that will be very much in the running for the American League pennant, Walter Johnson, its manager, believes. Broadcasting from Station WJSV last night, Johnson, in his first aerial interview of the year concerning the Nationals’ prospects for 1932, waxed enthusi- astic ih his praise of his charges and expressed utmost confidence in their ability to battle gallantly for the flag. “Washington will be a pennant con- tender in every way,” declared the manager. “I am confident we will have the fine defensive ability that marked our play last year. I look for our pitch- ing to be even better than last year when it was splendid. We are likely to be @ better hitting club and more dangerous on' the bases. In fact, we'll show 'em a great ball club this year. “Washington, I believe, will show more improvement over 1931 than the Athletics or the Yankees and once more those will be the clubs to beat. The Yankees were powerful last year and will be 5o &gain, but I feel sure we will be able to get by them this time. And those A’s Will be as dangerous as ever Don't expect them to slump because they took an unexpected licking in the world serjes last October. But we'll be ready to give them a battle. “Yes, sir, barring accident Washing- ton will be in there fighting from the bell and I look for a great run by the club all the way.” Sees Punch in Reynolds. The big Winter trade that brought Carl Reynolds and Johnny Kerr to the Nationals from the White Sox in ex- change for Bump Hadley, Sam_ Jones and Jack Hayes should benefit the Washington Club greatly according to Johnson. Tke manager deems Reynolds 2 great righthand hitter, just the type of batter needed fo give his ball club '3 inch that tells. P hether he copsidered the price paid fo: Reynoids ecd Kerr, the utility fnfieider, high, Johnson reminded the interviewer that in bas ball the cost is not £o imnortent as the matter of help- ing your club. “For & long time we haye been trying to get & high-class right- hand hlt% cutfielder, and Reynolds seems just tBe type desired,” he smd. “We gave for him two pitchers that had not done s0'much for us and an in- fielder who was not in the game reg- ularly. Should Reynolds come through, s I am confident he will, he would be worth far more than what Washington gave for him.” Johnson still thinks Hadley should become & great pitcher. “He has all the natural ability in the world,” Walter contended, “but after his first season with us he simply could not deliver. And we gave him every opportunity to make good. too. Washington did not seem to be the spot for him.” Jopes, around the 40-year-mark, pr ably is abcut through rs a big leag hurler, Johnson thought The Wash- ington manager spoie highly of Hayes “The best fielding seccnd baseman I've seen in years,” said Walter, “and a fine boy with it. It really hurt me to have to part with Jack, but that's base ball I hope he makes good in every way. Has No Pitching Worries. Although he will take to the South- ern training camp a small squad, in- cluding few pitchers, the scarcity of material causes Johnson no worry. “We will have few recruits. Virtually every man with the club is an experienced big leaguer and we will round out a clever club despite the small size of the squad. As a matter of fact, we should do bet- ter in training than the clubs with big squads, for much more attention than usual can be given the youngsters. “As to pitchers, why should a man- ager with a trio including Crow Marberry and Brown for the founda of a pitching staff lose sleep? Crowder already is conditioning himself at his North Carolina home and has writien President Griffith will be in great trim when he reports at camp. Last year Crowder, I believe, still felt the effects of an automobile smash-up he was in late in 1930, quite fit this time. Brown and Mar- berry are horses for work and theyll get plenty of it, too ‘I think we may look for much from Pischer this vear. This young left- hander has the right stuff and with a season and a half of big league ex- perfence back of him it will be about time for him to produce. Then Burke should be of help and I have good reason t Weaver, the big fellow we bou Baltimore, will make good. We nly has natural ability as a pit e also possesses a good head how to pitch We'll have a s with the best Battle for First Base. With Manush, West and Reynolds playing, the Washing outfield will compare_favorably with any, Johnson feels. “West is one of business,” said Walter He am sure.” year regain his batting form at putting over ru and Myer will be back i Judge and Kuhel will fig the first base job during tic campaign. “This Kuhel gave & g=0d last year after taking over when Judge became il Whalter, “and I regard his a fine pect. But they have bee Judge out of the picture for some years, yet he always has come back strong. He may do 50 again.” Spencer again will have to do most of the catching for the Nationals Johnson told. “But he likes hard work,” Walter added. The manager revealed that in Almond, Chattanooga, the Washington farm, the club has a good receiver in reserve to call on should Bolton not prove & capable understudy to the first-string Spencer. “Bolten, we know, can hit,” said Walter, “but he lacks polish as a receiver. Almond, while not so strong at bat, is a good receiver and can hold runners to bases. That type of catche might prove handy to have arcund.” HURLING TEAM TO VISIT. CORK, Ireland, January 8 (#)—The Cork hurling team, which won the All- Treland hurling contest, has accepted sn invitation to visit America and play s series of games. will measure up now with | X Hard-Luck Title Belongs to Him By the Associated Press. AN FRANCISCO, January 8—Russ Newland’s nomination for the hard-luck prize of 1931 goes to the top of the list. It concerns George Sharkey, old-time San Francisco sportsman; former man- ager of Al Norton, heavyweight, and one of Jack Dempsey's close {riends. The sequence of his series of mis- fortunes follows 1. This Fall he broke his ankle. 2. Because water was scarce early this Fall he had to buy several hundred dollars' worth for the rice fields of his duck shooting club at Colusa, Calif 3. Insurance ran out on his duck club _house. 4. Next day, before he could re- new insurance, club house burned down | 5. Al the cash money he had, several hundred dollars, was in pa- per bills and burned with the build- ing. %, Brake on his car loosened and car ran off bridge into a slough. 7. Then heaviest rainfall of years set in and completely flooded his duck club grounds. This after he had bought water 8. One of his crutches broke and he re-fractured his ankle. 9. When he was laid up the sec- ond time, he got the hives. A A. U BASKETERS TOURNEY N MARGH Boys’ and Girls’ Teams in Several Classes Will Play for Titles. Play in the District A. A. U. cham- pionship basket ball tournament will open Tuesday, March 1, 10 days earlier than it ever before has started. The big affair, again to be held on the Tech High court, will continue throughout March. Officials of the A. A. U. have just ruled that all teams desiring to com- pete shall have played at least two games together as & team prior to February 1. This is to stimulate par- ticipation of regularly organized teams. | Teams and players in the 130, 145 pound and unlimited classes must be registered in the A. A. U. and have 'their entries filed with Walter Haight at the sports department of the Post | by February 1 The 100-pound teams and the junior and senior girls' sextets have until February 23 to get in line. Beginning Monday entry bianks may be had at the Post sports. department. A A U. teams and players have been warned against playing with or against teams or playérs not registered | with the A. A. U. .Failure to observe the warning will result in the sus- pension of both the offending team and its players, it was asserted by officials. Teams will be weighed February 25 and 26 at the Boys' Club, where ap- plication for registration in the Dis trict A. A. U. may be made with Charles Fyfe, superintendent of the club. 'TECH FACES PLEBES AT NAVY TOMORROW Only Game for D. C. Scholastic | Basketers—High School Series Under Way Today. Tech High basketers will go to An- {napolis tomorrow afternoon to engage Navy Plebes at 2:30 o'clock. It is the District schoolboy five following today's heavy card. Headlining today’s program were the | opening games in the public high school series, bringing together, on the Tech court, Business and Tech and Central and Western, with the former two start- ing the activities at 3:30 o'clock In other games this afternoon Friends and Georgetown Prep were to face at | Garrett Park and Devitt and Swavely at Manassas, Eastern, which does not get into ac- tion in the public high series until Tues- day, will meet George Washington | Freshmen tonight at 7 o'clock on the | G. W. court in the preliminary to the but he should be |G. W.-Davis and Elkins Varsity match | and in other tilts tonight St. John's will face Boys' Club at St. John's at 8 |n'clock and Gonzaga will Knights of Columbus at Gonzaga at the same time. Eastern High quint continued on its undefeated way when it downed tional Training School tossers, 38 to 21 the Eastern couri. The Lincoln Parkers used rescrves until late in the game and always held the whip hand though the Training School boys played creditably, cspezially in the second half when they matched virtually Eastern point. Summary Eastern \(’(‘! | Pineran, f.. Brown, 1. Hartung, 1 Gandy, '1. Nodin, Marshall, 3 2 £ 0 0 2 0 0 >3300050~000wo00mny Georgetovn Prep Juniors, who de- feated St. John's Juniors, 14 to 8, at Garrett Park, are booking other junior quints through Manager Coveny at Shepherd 2800. Summary Geo. Prep. Jr John's 5. (14). Bt G .F.Ps, 0 3 Skelley, 1 Smith. " { McGettig'n, Leon. c s Enright. ¢ Stock, ¢ Galligher Hudgins. Gillian, coo0ommmn®, coscocsssy v ol ssossosss 3 2 2 0 0 0 2 4 [} 8 4 ‘0 Totals. CHOOSE LEADER UMPIRES |Harrington New Head of District | Base Ball Officials. Jack Harrington has been elected president of the District of Columbia Base Ball Umpires' Association &t the annual meeting of the body. | Dick Wilson was elected vice presi- |dent and Jim Sweeney secretary- | treasurer, ‘ | be faced Thanksgiving day, November | lone game of the day scheduled for a | | at New York. clash v\l()\‘ every | 8 | ball banquet, scheduled last. night, was 2 Dr. 8 | institution, and other scheduled speak- A WATCHING LONDOS KEEP ANOTHER ENGAGEMEN —By TOM DOERER MR, LONDOS' ENTERED THE RING ON TIME, READING A RR. TIME TABLE... RINGS (0B COSTOMER. WAS S4aDow - BoXING -+ THAT SHOows HOow THIS BONE -BENDING RACKET HAS 'EM. DuSEK SLAPPED LS GALIFORNIA PLAYMATE AROUND FOR AFEW (NNINGS LETH(M LooK GOOU'ANV THEN DES@RING To N SERVE THE CLIBMTELE, MAWN BooT JIM WRESTLES KOTZoNAROS FOR THE TITLE TONIGHT AT PHILA. KOTZ 1s A HotLywoop Flem BEAUTY., Jim CorRIGAN (N ABBREVIATED TRONKS HAS A STANCE LIKE AN IRON DEER = KIRILENKO SPEAT MOST OF THE EVENING OUT OF THE RING, DodGwWE HERB FREEMAN.... THE Witk OE SERVED EARLER ENTERS —AND HELRS JEEMS HAKE M(S TRANN - SHOWMAN AND WRESTLER- (15 SHOWMANSHIP WHEN JIM COMES SNARLING FROM His CORNER—BUT 'S WRESTLING WHEN HE REACHES HIS OPPONENT...---HE USED BOTH LAST NIGHT S, OA Nes, Yes- o MR. LoNDOS TOSSED MR.SZABO IN TME. To MAKE KIS TRAIN ... | Collegiate Conference title, /Tor Dosrar = I . Kuormouum — CATHOLIC . BOOKS. EIGHT GRID GAMES Four Each Here and Away on List—Clash Sought for October 8. ATHOLIC UNIVERSITY will| play at least eight foot ball games and probably one cthe: next Fall. Four home engagements have been listed. University of Chattanooga and | Wake Forest are scheduled to appear in Brooklyn Stadium October 15 and November 5, respectively; Duquesne will be met at Griffith Stadium Friday | night, November 18, and Loyola will| 26, at Brookland, Another home game | will be booked for October 8, if pos-‘ sible. In out-of-town contests the Cardi-| nals will meet City College of New | York, October 1; Manhattan, Octobrri 22; Holy Cross, at Worcester, October | 20 and_Providence College, at Provi- . November 12. ake Forest, Chattanooga and Holy Cross are newcomers to the schedule. | Athletic Director Dutch Bergman | attempted to arrange a game here with | Manhattan, but failed so far as tk vear is concerned. He _succeeded though, in listing Chick Meehan’s team here for next year. | The C. U. schedule: | October 1-City College of New York, | | Octaber 8—-Open. October 15—University of Chatta- | nooga | October ork October ter | November 5—Wake Forest i ember 12—Providence College, at dence ember 18 — Duquesne game). Grifith Stadium. November 24—Loyola 22 — Manhattan, at New 29—Holy Cress, at Worces- (ni (Baltimore) 6. W. BANQUET POSTPONED. George Washington University's foot | Ppostpe because of the inability cf yd Heck Marvin, president of the | ers to be present. The affair will be held at the first opportunity. Sweaters are to be present | 1831 SquazF ed 22 members of the Varied Sports Basket Ball. 37; Randolph-Macon, 20. | Tulsa, 25 Drake, 19. Belolt, 31% Ripon, 2 River Falls Teachers, 45; Eau Claire Teachers, 23 Wabash, 29: Ohio Wesleyan, 20. Clemson, 24; South Caroling, 22. Bridgewater, 31; Lynchburg, 27 Crelghton, '35; ' University of Mis- souri, 34 | i Cape Girardeau Teachers, 33; Kirks- | ican U. ville Teachers, 32 Stetson, 39. Citadel, 29. Brigham Y, ponEham Young, 43; Wichita, Kans. | | | Gonzago, 39; Whitman. 36 | Arlzona, 39; Ta Verne College, 21. Pro Hockey. . New York Americans, 1; ‘ Cenadiens, 0. ovidence, 5; New York, 0.a Detroit, 3; Syracuse, 3 (tie). St. Louls Flyers, 3; Buffalo Majors, 0. Boston Cubs, 8; Springfield Indians, 3. 5mon"mcn§‘ 2; Duluth, 1. oo &) ; New Yorl Bo':{:fi s roons, 4 . 0; Detroit, 0 (overtime tie). Pittsburgh, 2; Windsor, 0 Montreal | tonight 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. UCK BECKER, Washington boy, and the lonc left-hander on the Washington club's pitch- ing staff, is not satisfied with the contract offered him for next season by Manager Griffith, though it carries an increase. Jack Hegarty, Georgetown U. grid- iron captain, announces that the Blue and Gray will have Spring practice this year. A game with Navy is planned next Fall Jack Ielivelt, former National, may play first base next season for Rochester. Stokes has been re-elected presi- dent of Tremont A. C., with John Maloney, vice president. These two with Daniel Hassett and )} Rawlings form the athle Shag Rawlings has captain. Prank, Decker, Hamilton, Royce and Mc Jahon are some of the athletes being counted upon. Swing, Kempton, Mahoney and Rawlings, last season’s relay team, is intact, and Adams and Young are new candidates for the quartet. The half-mile relay team will be picked from Grace, Frank, Mc- Mahon, Swing, Stokes and Robinson. Among those figuring in the bowl- ing news here are Pop Hartman, George Cox, Johnny Voorheis, Jimmy Smith, Larry Sutton, Alec Dunbar, Dan Koster, Jimmy Watt, Glenn Riddeli, Dave Shiman and Lee Johns. named BASKETERS PLANNING NEW SEMI-PRO LOOP Will Consider Organization at Meeting Tonight—Government League Plays. A meeting to consider organization of a semi-pro basket ball league has | at | been called for tomorrow night French’s sports shop, 721 Fourteenth street, at 7 o'clock In Government Basket Ball League games tonight Patent Office will face Naval Hospital and Census Enumerators | the | The first two will | will engage Interior tossers on Bolling Field court. open play at 9 o'clock. Saks Clothiers will engage Quantico Marines tomorrow night at 8 o'clock on the Takoma-Silver Spring High School | court, starting at 8 o'clock. Vic Sport Shop semi-pro basketers anticipate _tough opposition in the Broadway Theatrical quint, to be met Sunday afternoon in the Silver Spring Armory. Northern Preps and Takoma Business Men. unlimited class teams, will face Fire Department court One more team is needed to complcte Lake Placid Is a Fori Place For Holding Winter Olympics BY GEORGE TREVOR. NEW YORK, January 8—Down from Lake Placid, which sleeps beneath a fleecy blanket in the cold-edged shadow of White Face, blows a chill wind that chatters of snowshoes, skiis, skates and bobsleds. Within a fortnight now the Winter sports champions of Britain, Sweden, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Esthonia and the United States | will assemble in this Adirondack coun- | terpart of St. Moritz | 132" Olympic titles Not since 1904 at St. Louis has Amer- ica played host to the Olympic contest- ants. In those Rooseveltian days, when trust busting and brandishing the big ick was our favorite diversion, Winter sports had_no place on the Olympic to compete for the program. This Jack Frost phase of the | games established at Olympus in Hom- eric times would have struck those an- | clent Greeks as exceedingly goofy. It | wasn't until 1924 that the Winter sports were added to the modern Olympic pro- gram. e The first Olympic ice carnival | was staged at Chamonix that season, to be followed in 1928 by a Winter meeting at St. Moritz. Now the scene shifts to America and the search for a suitable snowbird rendezvous led logically to Lake Placid. This Adirondack resort has always stressed Winter sports. In its own rug- | Bed way it succeeds in capturing some- thing of the flavor that distinguishes St. Moritz, Davos, Chamonix and other Alpine meccas for those whose knowl- edge of ice is not confined to crystal cubes tinkling pleasantly in highball | glasses. Only one thing was lacking when the Olympic Committee surveyed Lake Placid’s possibilities several Winters back—A bob-sled run. American sports- men were thus denied the champagne | of speed sensations—a nerve-shocking Basket Ball Tips BY SOL METZGER. Foot ball is not the only sport in which a left-handed player is used to spring a surprise. For example, Coach Rich Fox of Idaho's basket ball five uses a southpaw, guard No. 5, in this case, to break through a man-to-man defense, The play is worked as follows: Guard (4) has the ball. Imme- | diately center (1) bluffs cutting for the basket and then swings across court. This move is so timed that when guard (5) breaks for the foul | at 8 oclock on the Takoma | the roster of the newly orgenized Gov- | ernment League. A. L. Fisher may be telephoned at National 8472, branch 64, | during the day. ¥. M. C. A. and Washington Cardi- | nals, unlimited teams, will face Lonlght‘ at 8 o'clock on the “¥” court. Dixle Pig Preps, 135-pounders, will | engage Mount Rainier Boys’ Club quint tnni:h!, at 7:30 o'clock, on the Mount Rainier High School court. Scores: * Naval Reserves, 50: A. M. C., 42. Creszents. 16; Clifton Barbers, 14 Mount Vernon, 42: Calvary Drakes, 22 Bovs' Club, 30; Brookland, 22 Potomac Boat Club, 22; Tremonts, 12. | War College, 27; Woodside A. C., 17 hese teams want_games a Niartins, 100, 130 and unlimited class teams. Call Manager Joe Curtin North 3878-J, between 5:30 and 7:30 m. z St. Mary's Celtics, unlimited foe with court for Sunday. Adams 8037 between 5 and 7 pm. St. Paul's, 145-pound teams having courts. Potomac 2321. J R circle, 1 partially blocks 5's oppo- nent. No. 5 receives the pass from 4 and as 4 throws it he breaks around his opponent and cuts for the basket, passing to the rear of 5. No. 5, being left-handed, pivots and hands 4 the ball as 4 goes close .thrfller that makes flying, automobile racing and steeplechasing seem tame by | comparison. | Thanks to the enterprise of the | Olympic Committee and tke generosity of Lake Placid sportsmen, this de- ficiency no longer exists. On the pre- cipitous slope of Mount Van Hoeven- | berg, near the town of Lake Placid, two bobsled slides have recently been | fashioned. One is a practice course less than half a mile in length, with ceven turns and an average speed of about 45 miles an_hour. word in championship bobsled runs, de- aus Zentzytski, who name spelled twice alike. ‘The Mount Van Hoevenberg run is | in | approximately a mil> and a half length, with an average drop of 10 per cent. That, in case you don't know, is a dizzy downgrade. There are 26 curves, 5 being of an acute variety that might give even a human fly the vertigo. And the speed is 60 miles or | more. KENDALL GREENERS AFTER FOURTH WIN i | A. U., Victor in First Road| Contest, and Georgetown in Games Away. OLLEGE basket ball teams | of the District area will be busy tonight and tomorrow night, being scheduled to participate in 10 games. Following cancellation of the Catholic U.-University of Mexico game because the latter hadi called off a proposed tour of this country, one major contest re-| mans for District courts tonight. | Gallaudet will entertain Maryland State Normal at Kendall Green. | Gallaudet will be out for its third win | in four starts against State Normal, | which already this season has been de- | feated here by American U. and Cath- olic U. | Mexico abandoned its invasion of this | country because it could not be arranged satisfactorily from a financial stand- point. | Georgetown and American University | have week end engagements away. The | Hoyas will engage Crescent A. C. to-| night at Brooklyn, N. Y., and New York | University tomorrow night in New York | ity. American U., which opened a Vir-| ginia foray with a 37-20 win over Ran- The other is the last | dolph-Macon last night at Ashland, will | meet Virginia Medical College tonight | at Richmond and Hampden-Sidney to- morrow night at Hampden-Sidney. | i | In the minor college group, Bliss, a leading contender for the Washirgion | will meet Wilson Teachers’ College tonight at the | | Silver Spring Armory. The game will | follow a preliminary between the Eagles and Howitzers girls' teams, starting at | 7:30 o'clock. A dance is slated after | the main tilt. Benjamin Franklin U. quint will meet Rider College tossers tonight and New Jersey State Teachers tomorrow_night, | ;;ou; games to be played at Trenton, | Strayer and Columbus also will see | action tomorrow night on out-of-town | courts, the former against Shepherd | College at Shepherdstown, W. Va., and | the latter against Shenandoah College at Dayton, Va. Shenandoah licked Columbus on a recent, Wasiington vasion during which the Virginians won four of five games. Though th> C. U. Varsity-Mexico game has gone by the boards. the C. U. court will not be dark tonight, as the | freshman teams of C. U. and Maryland | will meet there at 8 o'clock. | 1t is interesting to not= that both the | C. U. and Maryland yearlings hava| beaten Business High by a lone point. | The Cardinal cubs turned the :rick, 32 to 31, some three weeks ago, while the Old Line youngsters did it, 12 to 11, Tuesday. MERICAN UNIVERSITY gained | the lead early against Randolph- | Macon and soon was in front by n substantlal margin. At half time the Fagles' advantage was 23 to 12. | Fuchs, Sells and Olsen for A. U. and Lafer, Birdsong and Bea'l for the losers did most of the scoring. Summary American U 3 | oooo000mmg2 Clayton, & Buffington! Totals. Totals.. Referee—Mr. Wharton (V. P. 1), | | coowoowws 8 Entire Stocks Included, But Only for a Limited Time by him for the basket, a maneuver that frees 4 of his opponent. No. 4 then dribbles and shoots. Of course, the Idaho forwards (2 and 3) ma- neuver in their corners of the court 50 their opposing guards ecannot in- terfere with 4. Nights *Opex Basket Ball List For D. C. Quintets COLLEGE. Today. Maryland State Normal vs. Gal- laudet, at Kendall Green. Catholic University freshmen vs. Maryland freshmen, at Brookland. Georgtown vs. Crescent A. C, at Brooklyn, N. Y. American University vs. Virginia Medical College, at Richmond. Wilson Teachers’ College vs. Bliss, at Silver Spring Armory. Benjamin Franklin U. vs. Rider College, at Trenton, N. J. Tomorrow. Georgetown vs. New York New York. American University vs. Hamp- den-Sidney, at Hampden-Sidney. Strayer vs. Shepherd College, at Shepherdstown, W. Va. Benjamin Franklin U. Jersey State Teachers’ Trenton, N. J. SCHOLASTIC. Today. Business vs. Tech, 3:30 o'clock; Central vs. Western, Tech court. (Public high school championship series games.) Eastern vs. George Washington freshmen, at G. W., 7 p.m. (Pre- liminary to G. W. varsity-Davis and game.) 'EClub vs. St. John's, at St. at vs. New College, at pm. Knights of Columbus vs. Gonazaga, atSGanaga, 8 p.m. e t. Albans vs. Episcopal Prep, at Garrett Park. i i Devitt vs. Swavely, at Manassas. Tomorrow. Tech Navy Plebes, at An- napolis. St. Albans vs, Episcopal, at Alex- andria. V. M. I. HAS 5 LETTER Vs, Another Insignia Winner Also Is Among Reserves—Starts Season Tomorrow. LEXINGTON, Va. January 8.—After a week of practice following the holi- days, the V. M. I. basket ball team will open the 1932 campaign here tomorrow night by tackling the St. John’s of An- napolis. Next week the Cadets will have two home games, playing Virginia on Wed- nesday and Maryland on Saturday. Coach Bill Raftery’s shooters hope to have better luck with the first three teams on the schedule than they had last year when they bowed once to the Johnnies and twice each to Maryland's conference championship five and to the Cavaliers. Capt. Bob Brown heads a list of five letter men who will start for V. M. L Brown, Ran Gregory and Tom Grainger, the guards, and Si Mergenhagen-will be using the Meanwell system for the third year. Paul Edmund's, Brown's running mate at forward, has had one | year of varsity experience. Braxton Cutchin, another letter man; Flash Taylor, Stumpy Travers and Irvin Smith are among the substitutes who may see service. SRR o e NAVY PROVIDES TEST Virginia Seeks First Win in 20 Years Over Middies. UNIVERSITY, Va. January 8.—Vir- ginia's basket ball offense will be se- | verely tested tomorrow night, when the Navy quint comes here to piay. When Virginia opened the season with a 9: victory cver Willlam and cdnesday night, a crowd of more . than 2,000 attended. Navy will draw an even Jarger crowd and 2,509 seats will be provided. Virginia_has not defeated Navy in | tasket ball within the last 20 years. The undefeated teams of 1914 and 1915 and the 1922 quint, that lost only one contest, did not play the Midshipmen. Y'/'}./'/'/'/'/'J.}'/'/'/-. hink? FIORSHEIM A SALE SAVING THAT YOU CAN°’T AFFORD TO MISS Men’s Shops 14th at G 7th & K *3212 14th » !