Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1932, Page 27

[ 4 NG EDITION ny Star. W. ASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1932. * PAGE C—1 Alabama and Georgia Quints Formidable : New York Hive of Athletic Activity CRIMSON FEARED MOST IN TOURNEY Southern Conference Agog| Over Question of Rule by Commissioner. BY H. C. BYRD. LABAMA and Georgia are [A reported to be about the A best of the Southern Con- ference basket ball teams in the Far South, with Kentucky, North Carolina and Maryland| leading the more northerly group. | Alabama especially, according to| those familiar with the basket | ball situation in that section, is| expecting to cut a wide swathe uuring the entire season. It was | Kentucky and Maryland that| fought it out in the final game for | the championship of the South- ern Conference tournament at Atlanta last year. “When the Southern Conference tournament is held at Atlanta a month from now, you just watch Alabama, with Georgia standing out as a possible | dark hor. expressed | this morning by an Alabama alumnu Despite the fact Kentucky and Mar: land were the fi last season is the thought of a is pote it | oppo- teams in the , about the I've seen. 4¢] TNDOUBTEDLY Alabama has the Whether or not supporters to Tusca- tit 5easons. good the expectations of it ies back from Atlan m Confere Washington was rather a poc little Loyola College look for Maryland to get a battle Saturday from North 1a and would not be surprised if Carolina were to win.” ler or not this Alabama alum- up the basket ball situation | Southern Conference rightly, it | g teams Wh 16 colleges meet to battle in the elim- ination tournament. | ANDOLPH-MACON comes here tc-l morrow to return the visit made to Ashland by American University earlier in the season. The game is be played in the American Uni gymnasium and the local at New Or- up a lot of disc These were the formation of & committee to study | the question of and make recom- mendations concerning the appointment of & commissioner to have real authority | in matters having to do with eligibility and the lowering of the maximum fee of foot ball officials from $75 to $50. The whole South seems to be 8gog over what may be done about the commis- sionership. In some quarters an opin-| fon seems to prevail that there may be | too much opposition against the com- | missionership for it ever to become an | actuality and among others there is| ust as definite a feeling that it is as good as done, Naturally, foot ball offi- cials have not accepted with any special peace of mind the reduction of 3 per cent in_their fee each game and some of the schools are not Very kindly disposed toward it of these propositions has bee about almost as much as t¥ Some of the universit they should be allowed tc services of an official Wh feel such services to be w ing on the importance Some of the others a their doubts about the official under any ci hours’ work $50 is ‘The committee to m: about the comn have it 1e me e to change n fee, but 1 come of shooting < an effort will 1 of the Executive the action whether or it is hard to for BELLMAN HIGH SCORER e than , guard, in the same number of con S Bellman has collected and 14 fouls, while Z! pointers and 11 fo : Foster Mathias, guard, with 48 points in 10 games, including 22 goals from scrimmage and 4 from the foul line, stands third A total scored by the against 187 for has only broken and five defeats Members of the sq follows 25 floor goals ler has 21 tv of 239 points has been Mount Rainier team, opponents, though it even with five wins d have scored as .| -} Bellman Ziegler F. Mathia Callow Emery ... R. Mathias. Chakalakis Scott Talope Shepherd Glynn .... ) ot BRRRA Soonoranta C | fore THE WEEK’S SPORTS TONSATION WASH. BE MR. STRANGLER LEWIS GOING TO WORK FOR A NEW o [EE———— {EUINSKy - BAER. HILLER- BATTALING FlELDS- BROVILLARD B16 TIME < BoxiNG ANOTHER IN FULL BLoom ~AND PUNCH-AND | TiCKL(NG THE CUSTOMERS WHO (Ts ovER LIKE THE SAME. —By TOM DOERER STLL LOOKING FOR CLOVER .. |Winter BRIGHT SCHEDULE OF SPORTS ON TAP Olympics, Millrose Games, Boxing, Base Ball on State’s List. BY WALTER TRUMBULL. EW YORK, February 1.—No hive ever was more crowded with bees than this city and State will be in the | x | next seven days with persons con- | nected with sport. “Tom DOERER BASE BALL TRADES LOOM AT MEETING Lazzeri of Yankees Among Players Reported to Be on Block. Ker black BY GAYLE TALBOT. Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, February 1.—Major League club owners and other dignitaries of the national pastime today were clustered here for the final get-together before the opening of the 19! mpaign The occasic al Mid- ter schedule 1e American League today al 1 tomor- row. Commission Mo ain Landis, with a new fedora, was on hand to preside. There was very little business to be transacted in either league. Techni- cally, the purpose of the meetings was to approve the schedules drawn up by Presidents John A. Heydler of the Na- tional League and William Harridge of the American last month. Actually, the confabs do little more than provide a fine opportunity for the boys to get together on any last-minute trades and, 1 ances, per- mit club man acquainted .azzeri, veteran Yankee in ] was understood to be on the auction block, and it wouldn't be sur- prising to see him change owners be- the delegates scatter tomorrow night. The Chicago White Sox, repre- sented by Secretary Harry Grabiner, admittedly were interested in Tony. The only thing standing in the wa. of a deal was sald to be Chicago's reluctance to part with a first-class pitcher, for instance, Ted Lyons. One 'of the big attractions. of last night’s base ball wrilers' banquet was pride and joy of the s, who motored in from his mountain fastness Martins W. Va. to greet his ne The pudgy outfielder i pleased to meet the people who w him $50,000 worth. Weighing 210 pounds, only about 15 over his best playing weight, the Hack- erino told Manager Max Carey and the assembled newspaper men he felt ready for a big season, possibly as good as he enjoyed in 1930. Wilson was scheduled to visit Ebbets Field today and sign his new contract, sald to call for $15000 and a bonus clause, less than half what he re- celved from the Cubs last season. CHEVIGNY IS SILENT QUITTING IRISH JOB| Schwartz May Succeed Backfield Coach of Last Three Years. Has Several Offers. SOUTH BEND, Ind., February 1.— Jack Chevigny, resigned Notre Dame backfield coach, offered no reason today for his separation from the Irish nor did university officials comment on his resignation, announced yesterday. Chevigny said he was considering sev- eral offers. In 1926, '27 and '28 he was a star blocking halfback et Notre and in the last three years has ed e of the Irish's most fa- ball toter He began coac in 1929 under the late Knute Rockne and when Rockne died was designated “junior” coach to 3 Coach _Heartly in developing last year's Marchmont Schwartz, Notre Dame's ace back in 1931, is thought to be & likely candidate to succeed Chevigny. Schwartz has another yvear ahead in the law class, but is ineligible for fur- ther grid competition and could coach while finishing his course. BASE BALL CLUB MEETS. ide A. C. base ball ad will nig t 7:30 o'clocl May, 1434 th Carolina a rtheast. candidates will be welcome. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. EORGETOWN U.’s relay candi- dates have narrowed to eight, including Campazzi, Eller, Chapman, Martin, Capt. Carrigan, Inky Davis, Mulligan and Foley lev Gish has just been named the Hilltoppers' track coach. President Ban Johnson of the American League predicts a hot pennant fight in 1912, Georgetown conquered Catholic University in a rough-and-tumble basket ball game. Schlosser's fine foul-shooting helped G. U. a lot. George Collifiower also played well for Georgetown. Georgetown and Virginia have ar- ranged to meet in foot ball again next season. N | THE SPO Tales of a Wayside Tee. ‘ T'S hard to know just when to stop out golf and admit | 1l factors are taking | | | | | | | generalizing l that indi the whip | Time after t the temptatior hang similar cf tances of the | on the s itself, | right now one of e points is George Von E pace. The general head v 1 one is tempt- ed to list h s “Incentive— | Lack of.” | 'The one great and enace to contin- ued success by the established masters o fthe ancient game is lack of the over- powering urge to win. Concentration is | wrapped up with it, but old-fashioned | raw hunger tinguishes the expert, | who is from his equals in shot who are simply strir wess, the We n when events on tk 1e most as Vi meppi up the a e Coa cor through black Wednesday in four suc- | cessive national amateur champion- | ships, ever since he beat Bobby Jones | for the crown at Baltusrol in 1926. But | | this sort of persecution complex was | | a great help to him in keeping his nose | | close to the grindstone. Many another good golfer envies Von Elm his com- | petitive ferocity. 4 Last vear was Von Elm's greatest, be- cause he had something import prove. He was experimenting wit} he assignment t pacc and he scored y st every time he went into | action, no matte: how important or | unimportant was the event. | S | ’ T looks as if t}e reaction has set in, fust a3 it did, in the case of Gene |, & 'S yiep this concentration intect through a match. This doesn’t mean that the duffer can concentrate himself into a_ star. There are too many physical faults to be corrected first. even the duffer can chop away y strokes by concentrating on a h back swing, control of tension ack of hurry, for example. by N Newspaper Al | Sarazen—and I don't mean the |time that Sarsy4en’s mechanism went | | haywire, along in 1923-4-5. Von Elm |is under the baleful gleam of the na- tional open complex. He has tasted all the subordinate sweets; he has proved s game is sound and his courage un jed. He may say that in eve! Angeles and the Agua he wa ng just as hard r ago, and would prob- planations, but y generlizing — it seems clear that the gnawing urge to { demonstrate isn't as active. He's now loaded all his eggs in one | basket, marked “To be delivered to | Fresh Meadow Golf Club, June, 1932.” Sarazen has all his eggs in the same basket. And so have MacDonald Smith and Tommy Armour. All these mighty | men of the links have been graduated | from the year-round frenzy. They | have no overpowering inclinations to win every event they enter. But there is one difficulty. Playing golf as a habit, even competitive golf, as many of the leaders do throughout the year, puts too much of a strain on tense themselves for the open. That | where Bobby Jones had something on | them. He shifted into high for the big 'EAGLES ARE VICTORS OVER PASSON QUINT Turn Tables in Engagement With | Philadelphia Semi-Pro Bas- 1 ket Ball Outfit. Skinker Eagles vanquished Passon Pros of Philadelphia, 32 to 29, but Vic’s Sport Shop, the District's other semi- pro basket ball tcam, succumbed to Columbia Turners, also of the Quaker City, by a lone point, 29 to 30, in yes- | terday’s battles. ‘That victory over Passon on the Boll- | ing Field court was sweet to the Eagles, as the previous Sunday the Philadelphia team had conquered the Birds. Led by | Ralph Bennie, who found the hoop for 12 points, Eagles flew to an early lead | and were in front most of the way,| though Passon bjtterly contested every step. It was the first defeat for the vis 29 starts. Inky Lautman's has! ping, which was a big factor nt win over the Eagles. | in when he counted | Nip-and-tuck competition also marked | the Columbia Turners-Vic game. The | District quint gained a slight lead in | the late going after the half had ended in a 12-12 tie, but the invaders rallied in the dying moments to triumph. Ed Becker, with 16 points, was the big | Sweeney, with 14, and Cowboy Hayes, |lanky center, with 8, were Vic's best. JAPI;N WINS AT RUGBY. OSAKA, Japan, February 1 ().—The | all-Canada English rugby team suffered the first defeat of its Japanese tour | yesterday, bowing to the all-Japan fif- | teen, 9 to 8. A crowd of 20,000 per- sons’ saw the game. SHADE T0O MEET FIRPO. CHICAGO, February 1 (#).— Dave Shade, California_middleweight, and Henry Firpo, bald New Castle, Pa., box- er, have been matched for & 10-round main bout at White City February &, BY GRANTLAND RICE | the temperament when they suddenly | scorer of the winners’ attack, while Joe | RTLIGHT | | | event. but he hadn't been droning along in second all season. It is probable that had he won at Inverness in 1920, when he finished only four strokes back of Ray, the winner, with a last round nes' unparalleled powers of ation would never have been mental att on, either ¢ k his lau itude of an open fending or trying to is & far more in the attitude of a s direct, colled with inspring, but not f yielding prestige make Billle Burke's showing at Fresh Meadow one of the major attractions of the golfing year. His relentless purpose and magnificent | self-possession at Inverness showed a unity cf mind and fiber. Compared t: g of voices in his ears this ) campalgn will seem eam fear This contrast w the terrific part The is im- stroke played. A few days ago I was talking with the pr ent of a large orga on, who had played consistently under I asked him how his golf game had been this Summer. “Terrible,” he said around 90 most of the time. have the same swing” he continued. | “But T've had too many other things to think about, even while out playing golf. I might be able to concentrate for 'a few holes and get a few pars I'm worrying abcut ss and up pop the fou canj play good golf of something else, I > how good your swing is.” by Jones answer. No golf swing is good enough | to take care of itself, especially through a match. The mental side must be in control, although the thinking happens P to be along simple lines. There must be & keén and steady | 5 Il give ycu the same | hef 7 American ic.) | - THREE-RAIL MEET Has One-Game Margin Over Kieckhefer, Thurnblad in Cue Tourney. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, February 1.—With 50 of the 66 games completed, Otto Reiselt, the Philadelphia veteran, holds a full-game lead over the rest of the field in the world championship three-cushion tournament Reiselt, although idle since lst Priday receiv a chance to tie Reiselt I , but he was surprised by the veteran Frank Scoville of Buffalo, the Eastern cham- pion, losing by 50 to 36 in 56 innings This defeat dropped Kieckhefer into a tie with Art Thurnblad, the defending title holder, with fle won and two lost. | Gus Copulos of Eugene, Oreg., was beaten by Len Kenney of Chicago, 50 to 32, in 47 innings. Both Kenney and Scoville took early leads and never gave ground. Reisclt will be idle again today and is not expected to play before tom night. He has four ft 1, Jack Schaefer, Copi Ph ph kiefer, Chicago blad, Chicago Bud Westhus, St. Tiff Denton, Kansas ELON GAME CANCF:LED. Cancellation of the George Washing- ton-Elon College basket ball game, scheduled for tomorrow night on the G. W. court, has been announced. [ [ 3 374 Amateur Basketers Must Sign By Tonight for Title Tourney IDNIGHT tonight s the gero hour for registration of play- ers in the 130, 145 pound and and unlimited classes who plan to compete in the District A. A. U. ;champinmhlp basket ball tournament. | starting March 1 at Tech High School. Registration papers must be filled out and in the hands of Charles M. Fyfe, chairman of the Registration Commit- tee, at his office in the Boys' Club, Third and C streets Members of girls’ teams and smaller | boys’ teams have until February 23 to :\p};})iv for A. A. U. memberships. yers who took part in the 1931 | Battery A, 18; Battery B, 6 (Coast Artillery League). Premier, 27; Paramount, 13, Centennials, 22; Brentwood Hawks, 7. Olmsted Grill, 36; Swann Service, 11. Olmsted Grill, 28; Chevy Chase | Grays, 24. | A.Z. A, 39; Athliso, 16 (Jewish Com- | munity Center League). Rockville A. A. basketers are after a game for Saturday and also have sev- | eral other open dates this month. Man ager McDonald is booking at Rockville | 139-R between 6 and 7:30 p.m. Games with pound quints are sought by Fairlawns. Challenges are being_handled by Manager Adlung at | Lincoln 4351-J between 6 and 7 p.m. | tourney and whose membership does | not_expire until late this month are urged to renew it without delay so that | they ne}a]y not Lnhave to stop playing | while e coming championshi] are being decided. i ot Census tossers, who are heading the | Government League race with seven wins in zs many starts, will face In- vestigation quint tonight a 9 o'clock at Bolling Field and in another league encounter Commerce and Naval Hos- pital will mix at Central High at 7:30 Team Standing. Census Fort Mser, Patent Of | Investigation . | Bolling” Fiela Union Print, | Naval Hospi: | Inter omm conmmmeas Other lcops games this week: ‘Tomorrow—Commerce vs. Interior, 8 p.m.. Fort Myer, 9 pm., Field vs. Naval He 7:30 pm.: G, P. Eastern High, 9 p.m Office, 8 p.ni Investigation, 9 p.m., estigation vs. Commerce, at m, V. G. Censtis, G. | pi Comi and 1 er at ‘Bolling 2 B Comme; | Fiela. Sunday—Naval Hospital vs. Union Print- ers, at Bolling Field, 2 p.m. y—Inter rce vs. ITH Joe Robey and Bernie Jones stinging the cords consistently, | Soks Clothiers drubbed D. C. Fire- men, 49 to 17, in a District Amateur League game yesterday on the Boys' Club court. In a preliminary, Boys’ Club Big Five ;!n\\érged Columbia Heights Celtics, 35 o 29. District Knights of Columbus bask- eters won their second game in as many starts in their battle for the Southern championship of the order by downing Santa Maria Council of Baltimore, 27 to 22, in the Maryland city. The Wash- P. 0. 8 pm.. and | 9 pm., at Bolling | Basket Ball Tips Johnny Wilson, who coaches the Navy basket ball five, evidently knows how to get quick scoring re- sults when his team has the ball out of bounds in the defensive end of the court. Look at this master- piece as proof. . . Guard (5) has the ball out of bounds. His teammates take the positions shown in the diagram. No. 4 suddenly breaks toward 5, takes a pass from 5 and relays the ball ahead to his right forward (3) break- ing back toward him. No. 4 never checks his speed from the moment he breaks for the toss in from out of bounds. Thus when he passes to 3, he continues at full speed down the right side of the court and takes a return pass from 3 in order to dribble for the basket and a close- up shot, which is followed in from ington Caseys trimmed the same team here the previous Sunday. Other_ results: CP&;;L Myer Cubs, 39; Paramount A. “ he other side by the centqr (1), who ::uiso at the start of mt:r play for the basket. Next—Another Navy out-of-bounds DY (Copyrisht, 182 A special session has been called for tonight by managers of the teams entered in the Alexan- dria Basket Ball League for the pur- | pose . of revising the remainder of the | schedule. The meeting will be held at | the home of Ralph Scrivener, 1 | Prince street, at 6 o'clock | Robert McDonald, pilot of the Co- | lumbia Engine Company tossers; Jack | Watt, manager of the Virginia five; ' Tommy Lucas of the St. Mary's Ly- |ceum, and Ralph Scrivener, leader of ] the Fraters’ five, are asked to attend. g Standing of the Teams. Pct 1.000 1.000 000 Fraters’ Col St. Ma Frater Jumphreys tonight one of the comg V teams at 7:30 o'clock in the post gym- nasium. ‘The contest opens a four- game program planned for the local amateur champions this week. A _preliminary will be arranged by the Praters as part of the City League program_at Armory Hall Wednesday night. Ballston A.”C. will be played at Washington-Lee High School, in LEXANDRIA, Va., February 1.—[ DEICEIT ¢ PAPINE Aléx_zln(ilzians i{e\;isé "Scih;dul;; REISEH IS PAElNG Fraters Play Humphreys Five Arlington County, on Thursday night and the Columbia Engine Company be faced at Armory Hall in a loop \gagement Saturday night. HREE schi olastic engagements dot ernoon and will entertain Virginia Epis- copal School of Lynchburg here Sat- urday afternoon. = Alexandria High's lone battle will be staged with Fred- ericksburg High here Friday night, at | the Armory. | lash between Alexandria and w Jackets will determine the d athletic district of . Girls’ 1 meet in 2 fI and the battle will uled for a later date, Colum- e Jooking for games and Manager | Robert McDonald may be reached by | telephone at Alexandria 2256. | Jack Watt, pilot of the Virginia five, |is anxious to book games with unlim- ited basket ball clubs. Teams inter- ested are asked to call Watt, at Alex- | andria 2020-J, between 6 and 7 p.m. Basket Ball Lists DARTMOUTH SOARING For D. C. Quintets COLLEGE. Tomorrow. 20 | Randolph-Macon vs. American Uni- | versity at A. U. | Strayer vs. Ben Franklin at Central (Washington Collegiate Conference game). | ~ George Washington freshmen vs. Washington-Lee High at Ballston Wednesday. Catholic University vs. Maryland at College Park Georgetown vs. Loyola at Baltimore. Thursday, | _Western Maryland vs. Georgetown at | Tech High. George Washington vs. Willlam and Mary at Williamsburg. |~ George Washington _freshmen vs. | Bethesda-Chevy Chase High at Leland, Md. Friday. Elon College vs. American University at A. U. | George Washington vs. Virginia Medi- cal College at Richmond. Strayer vs. Bliss at Sllver Spring Armory (Washington Collegiate Con- ference game). Saturday. North Carolina vs. Maryland at Col- lege Park. Temple College of Pharmacy vs. Gal- laudet at Kendall Green. Catholic University vs Baltimore, Catholic University freshmen Loyola freshmen at Baltimore. SCHOLASTIC. Today. Gonzaga vs. Catholic Freshmen at C. U, 7 pm. Eastern vs. Georgetown Prep at Gar- rett Park. Loyola at University ‘Tomorrow. Eastern vs. Western, Business Vs. Central, Tech High court, public high school championship games; first game, Eastern vs. Western, 3:30 o’'clock. Tech vs. St. John's at St. John's. Friends vs. St. Albans at St. Albans. ‘Wednesday. Tech vs. Maryland Freshmen at Col- lege Park. Charlottesville Fives vs. Gonzaga at Gonzaga. | Emerson vs. Woodberry Forest at Orange, Va. Georgetown Prep vs. Loyola High at Baltimore. Thursday. Central vs. Catholic University Fresh- men at C. U. . Emerson vs. Staunton Academy at Staunton. Business vs. Swavely at Manassas. Friday. Central vs. Eastern, Tech vs. West- | ern, Tech High court, public high school championship gam first game, Cen- | tral vs. Eastern, 3:30 o’clock. Business vs. Boys’ Club at Boys’ Club. Wilson Teachers vs. Gonzaga at Gonzaga, 8 pm. St. John's vs. Leonard Hall at Leonardtown, 8 p.m. | _Emerson vs. Washington and Lee | Freshmen at Lexington, Va. | Georgetown Prep vs. Friends at | Friends. Military | Saturday. | Western vs. George Washington Freshmen at G. W. St. Albans vs. Leonard Hall at Leon- ardtown. | Emerson vs. Massanutten Military | Academy at Woodstock, Va. HOWITZER GIANTS WIN. ‘With all hands taking & hand in the basket: Howitzer Giants romped f(o“s) 42-11 win over t;‘reg(ericksburg Elks yesterday on e Kensington Armory vs. iN BASKET BALL LOOP Looks to Fourth Straight Win in College Circuit as It Meets Yale Five. | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, February 1—Dart- mouth’s Indians look ahead this week to their fourth straight Eastern Inter- collegiate Basket Ball League victory and Columbia Lions, less confi- dently, to their second in three starts, On the basis of ear there appears to be no chance for Yale to | stop Dartmouth's march when the two teams clash for the second time at Hanover, N. H, on Saturday. Dartmouth nosed out Yale by & single point in their first meeting at New Haven and must be conceded an over- whelming advantage over the Elis at Hanover, the Indians’ own stamping ground. ' And_since that first close game at New Haven Yale has lost the services of Bill Saner, flashy young for- | ward, and dropped two league games out of three. Columbia, sadly missing the services of the injured Lou Bender, will attempt | to get back into the fight with a vic- | tory over Penn at Philadelphia on Sat- | urday. Princeton and Cornell, idle so far as the league is concerned this week, will get back into action next week in the ame schedule. ue this lumbia will play Army at West Point ‘on Wednesday while Princeton is tackling Gettysburg on Thursday and ‘la Salle College on Saturday. | POLISH BOOTERS WIN. | PROVIDENCE, R. I, February 1 (). | —The Polish Olympic hockey team won its second game of an exhibition series in this country preliminary to its Olym- pic competition, when it defeated the Rhode Island Scarlets, 3 to 2, here last night. r | competing than th b week, Co- | Monday and Tuesday bring the ‘American and National League | schedule meetings, which means ‘a gathering of owners, managers, scouts, players and bat boys. Al- ready they are talking trades. Hack Wilson is present and tak- ing his pen in hand to sign his contract with Brooklyn. The New | York Yankees are shopping for a | pitcher. Cleveland is collecting infielders. Cincinnati is looking for anything it can pry loose. Monday and Wednesday evenings the amateur boxers do their stuff at the Garden. There are 44 of them, with 14 | champions in the list | saturday a flock of track and fleld champions will compete at the Garden |in_ the famous Millrose games. A new board track is expected to produce some new records. This meet will show an entry list containing 11 record holders. Probably because this is an_Olympic yvear, there will be more seen. CI Canada, Hungar: intercollegiate title ch strength and spee ne of the scheduled | should _give the spectators ercy Beard, the Alabama Flash, ran the 120 hurdles in 141-5, at one |time or another defeated every star | hurdler in the country last year, with a | single exception. That was Jack Keller, the great hurdler' from Ohio State and national collegiate champion. The two never met They are ent yard high ed in the 50 ot and the also wil € Bob Maxwell, Monte Wel Collier. That will be some race. Meanwhile, on Thursday, more than 350 athletes, representing 17 nations, will line up in the Olpmpic Stadium at Lake Placid for the ceremonies ate tending the opening of the Olympie Winter games. It might be useful once more to look | over the list of these entrants. In al- phabetical order, they are Austria, Bels France, German: way, Poland, Ru Japan Sweden, United States. The events are five, compr petitions in speed, skatin ing, skiing, bobsledding and Aside from these, there wil! Wwomen's speed skating and s 1 racing, but these have no bearing on the Olympics. Points usually are scored 10 for first place, 5 for second place, 4 for third place, 3 for fourth place, 2 for fifth place and 1 for sixth place. Behind these come the also-rans. So far as we can discover, none of these events played any part in the ancient Olympics. As a matter of fact, the first all-steel skat not in= nted unt’l 1 dawn of hisf older than 18 are even now ment There is small doubt that ancient man did do a lot of trave: on skates, but the blades were of bone. Had Primo Carnera lived in those days, he could have sawed off a couple of ribes from the skeleton of some mammoth, tied them to his feet, and gone gliding gracefully over some frozen lake. With those feet of his, Prtmo would have had small use for skis. He could just turn up his toes a bit and slide. (Copyright, 1932, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) BALL BURSTS; GAME ENDS Brandywine Soccerists Forfeit to nania Hungary Switzerland & Columbia Heights Team. In the future soccer teams hereabout doubtless will satisfy themselves before each game that the ball is good and | strong. Or else have another at hand. | That it is dangerous to depend too much on one ball was demonstrated | vesterday when the Brandywine team was forced to forfeit to Columbia Heights in a Capital City League game at Brandywine, the result of the spheroid_exploding after a lusty boot. Brandywine was unable to produce an | other ball and the referee said it was | Columbia Heights' game. In another league match Rockville drubbed a Montgomery County foe, Gaithersburg, 5 to 0. Originators of Spiral Punt ~ And Pass Not Made Clear by | Archives of Gridiron Sport BY LAWRENCE PERRY. RITTEN tribute to Snake Ames, who died in Chicago recently, may renew a con- troversy which in the last few years has given way to debate as to who invented the modern method of throwing a foot ball. Poe, who was captain of Princeton's championship 1889 eleven, of which Snake Ames was fullback, set forth his belief that Ames was the originator of the spiral punt. “At any rate,” he wrote, among the first to develop it.” “Now the Princeton-Yale game played at Berkeley oval in New York November 28, 1889, is a childhood mem- |ory of the writer's—the first game of foot ball, major or otherwise, he ever saw. But one salient memory endures, that of Snake Ames catching punts on | the dead run and gaining much ground in the broken field time after tim ‘Whether or not his punts spiraled, we cannot say. B fact that in 1885 the foot ball world, then very limited, was greatly excited over a new sort of kick, the spiral punt, as employed by Mack Pope, fullback at Princetpn. “he was UT we personally can vouch for the Very clearly the scepticism of the | late Billy Bull is recalled. Bull at the [time was writing for the New York Evening Sun one of the first newspaper columns devoted to amateur sport that | was ever published. Bull had won a reputation at Yale as the greatest | punter and drop-kicker in the gridiron |annals cf old Eli and his column, “Chasing the Pigskin,” was a daily ref- erence of all foot ball lovers and as well & court of last appeal in conjunc- tion with Caspar Whitney's page in Harper's weekly. ELL, Bull did not for & moment be- leve that Mack Pope was able to kick intentional spirals. Accident- | ally, yes. But Bull had no idea that | the ball could be so controlled as to | spiral like a bullet from & rifled gun at the will of the kicker. The time soon came, though, when every one was con- vinced and after his graduation in 1896, Pope went to Annapolis to teach | spiral kicking to the Midshipmen. It does not seem that if Snake Ames had used the spiral punt back in 1889, | Bull, who played his last game of foot ball for Yale in 1887 and thereafter kept in close touch with the sport, would have known about it. At any rate Bull himself as a graduate soon became proficient in booting twisters and in later years, up to 1916 in fact, he was teaching the art to Yale kickery, e