Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1933, Page 12

SPORTS. Dixie Conference Plans Usual Activity : Colleges Shun Student-Run Athletics 1LL TS MEMBERS ON FIRM FOOTING ancellations by Northern Schools Present Some Difficulties. » V well as many in the| Middle West, are curtail- | ng their Spring sports schedules, | & abolishing them altogether, as | :ave Cornell and Syracuse, a | ummary of opinion in the southern Conference is that all members of that organization will BY H. C. BYRD. HILE several of the big Northern universities, as | Bostwick to Ride In Grand National YORK, January 16.—George A. (Pete) Bostwick, young millionaire sportsman, plans to ride in the Grand Nat! ional Steeple- chase at Aintree, Liverpcol. He now is in England getting himself in con- dition for the famous event. He wrote to J. P. (Samimy) Smith, who trains his horses in America, saying that barring accident or illness he will have a mount in the Grand Na- tional this year. John Hay Whitney has five horses eligible for the Grand Na- tional and if two or more of them g0 to the post, Pete probably will be invited to ride one. Bostwick is the undisputed champain cross- country jockey of America. He rates much better than any other amateur or any professional steeplechase Jockey. SOUTHERN SCORERS ;0 through with their usual pro- ms, resentatives of the 10 institutions making up the conference stated dur- | ng the gathering at Richmond last that there would be virtually no curiziiment of any schedules this year, znd that probably all schools would be to carry ouc their programs with- . a good deal of difficulty. ZZcmbers of the Scuthern Conference | p.osably have done less in over-expan- | sicn than the majority of institutions ewhere, ccnsequently seem to be in . pesition to continue. Two or three 24 he schools will have to borrow some moncy betore the end of the year, buc ney nave dcne that in the most pros- | |JeTous years, = E disposition among the schools in | center, retained today his place at the | this section is to cut expenses for | personnel rather than to curtail programs. Several have reduced salaries, while there are some instances where ome coaches have been relieved of their dutfes. In these latter cases coaches retained have doubled up. One grad- uate manager, renowned for his ability | w make a nickel buy about as mucl as the average man gets for 10 cents, | thinks this is the way to rctrench. | “The way to cut down expenses is| to eliminate so much high-priced coach- | .ng,” said this man, whose name is not | had a distinct edge in the number of | mentioned for very cbvious reasons. “Scme of us have been paying entirely tco much for personnel, more than is iustified, and now we are cutting down | and doubling up. The situation in the future, as I see it, is that we will have to go back to the old way of having | one man coach two or three sports. We used to do that and got along about as well as we have been getting along in recent years with a specialist in everything.” NE difficulty some of the schools cre encountering is in having con- tests canceled by northsrn ieams. Maryland, for instance, last wesk had its lacrosse game with Syracuse, booked as the feature of iis annual fleld day, under a two-year contract, the firsc half of which been ful- filled by Maryland, canceled. However, in such circumstances, there is nothing to do other than accept gracefully. At the meetings at Richmond Friday and Saturday, Southern Conference schools went on with the arrangement of thelr schedules for 193¢ in about i el v, S S something happzns they 'y they will y through about under normal conditions. ARYLAND, after beating Duke | M Thursday night, went to Lexing- ton and dropped games to Vir- ginia Miitary Institute and Wi P ton 2nd Lee by narrow . Ap- parently the Old Liners are not as rugged as last season and are not able physically to stand up under three games in as many consecutive nights. The chances are that when V. M. I and Washington and Lee come up here, Maryland will prove the victor. G ‘Washington meets the Quan- Hcce(lt;lg:mes tonight at Quantico. The Colonials expect to bring back a scalp, if they play up to their top strength. Catholic Spring sports and will continue this vear with basket ball as its only remain- inz intercollegiate sport, besides foot | ball. The Brooklanders, like many other | schools, are having financial difficulties, and it is this reason alone that prompt- ed their action. HE action taken by the Southern | Conference in asking an educa- | tional rating agency virtually to | become responsible for the maintenance of clean athletics in Southern schools is almost unprecedented. The action was not hasty and the conference apparently knew well what 1t was doing. | Its action was deliberate, and even the | statement given out by President Miles, | to accompany the announcement of the step that had been taken, was carefully prepared beforehand and Miles refused to talk beyond that statement. One factor in connection with the situation stands out, which is that the Southern Conference has made up its collective | mind to clean up athletics in the South and intends to follow its action on through to the end. University and American | came through with victories Saturcay. The Brooklanders took St. Joseph's into camp and American U. beat St. John's. And Catholic University is going to be a hard team for any of its opponents to whip. As a defensive five it stands | out, and Bus Sheary is proving himself the same kind of a brilliant standby that he was in foot ball. WIN IN LAST MINUTE Farrell and Bennie Lead as Aero Eagles Beat Paterson Pros, A lively rally in the last minute, led by Tubba Farrell and Ralph Bennie, carried the Aero Eagles to a 36-32 bas- ket ball win over the Paterson, N. J., oz T University is _dropping PACED BY VINGENT 0ld Line Center Totals 47 in Four League Games. Hall, V. M. I., Second. BY JOSEPH E. NETTLES, ' Associated Press Sports Writer. ICHMOND, Va., January 16.— R Although Maryland slipped from ership after a disastrous week on foreign courts, Vincent, Old Liner top of the pack in individual scoring. His total of 47 points, gained in four conference games, gave him an edge over Hall of V. P. I, who scored 40 in the same number of contests. ‘With the season still young, & num- h as ber of the loop's outstanding shot | makers have not had an opporiunity to show their wares in conference play, and Maryland and V. P. 1. players have games played. AWYERS, flashy Washington and Les forward, who scored 29 points in two games, and Hines of North Carolina, and Downey of V. M. I, each of whom counted 14 points in a single contest, promise to make the going rough for the league leaders. North Carolina State’s sharpshooters, known to be deadly accurate, are not represented among _the top-notch scorers, although the Wolfpack experi- enced no difficulty in putting together more than twice enough points to turn back the V. P. I quintet last week. When the game become virtually a rout, State substituted frequently, di- viding a total of 46 points among nine players. Similarly, 10 North Carolina basketers shared in the 58 points amassed by the Tarheels in overwhelm- ing iie visiting Techmen. State and North Carolina, along with V. M. I's Cadets, shared the confer- ence leadership, each with one victory aplece, but one of the leaders will fall ‘Wednesday night when the two Caro- lina quints come to grips, at Chapel Hill. V. M. I faces Virginia Wednesday night in the latter's first conference tilt, and on Friday the Cadets will take on V. P. I, at Lexingion. Clemson and South Carolina will make their conference debut at Colum- bia Friday night. 'THER loop tilts on the week’s sched- ule pit N. C. State against Duke, at Raleigh, Priday; Maryland against V. P I Saturday, at College Park, and ‘Washington and Lee against Virginia, at Lexington, the same evening. The following players are setting the pace in individual point scoring: b 1 o] Vingent. c. Maryland. EOLES V. Pk EYPRS A HONOR WINENG NINE. A banquet In honor of its base ball team, which won the unlimited crown in the Capital City League last season, will be given Wednesday at 8 o'clock at 1430 Park road by the Columbia Heights Business Men's Association. Players will be awarded gold base balls. Shadows of the Past BY L C. BRENNER. Pros yesterday in the George Washing- | ton_University gym. Gaining an early lead the visitors were in the van at the half, 21 to 17 Then, after the Paterson quint had bocsted its advantage to 27-17, the home snipers began peppering the basket. Bennie was the ace of the Eagle scor- | ers with 14 points. Joe Sweeney count- @d 12 and Farrell got 6. Jack Reis- muller, 6-foot center, with 10, was high for the invaders. Varied Sports National Hockey League. New York Rangers, 5;Chicago Biack- hawks, 0. Detroit Red Wings, 1; l}:::l York Americans, 1. (Overtime International Hockey League. Buffalo, 6; Syracuse, 3. Windsor, 3; Detroit Olympics, 1. Canadian-American Hockey League. Providence, 3; New Haven, 3. (Over- time tie.) Basket Ball. Johnucur_?u College, 31; Toledo St. John's U, 7. mn‘-rn 38; United Athletic Sub, 27. HARRY WOLTER. EMEMBER Harry Wolter? Well, I don't blame you if you don't. He played ball quite a way back, and while he was a corking out- fielder and a good hitter, he did his playing during the drab days of the New York Yankees ‘Wclter came to New York from the Pscific Coast Lenc\ie, and he is back in Los Ange n the laun- dry business. For somo years Harry g:: : college base ball coach on the s Wolter joined the Yankees in the era before Col. Jacob Ruppert be- came associated with the olub. Big Bill Devery and Frank Ferrell ran the works, and managers dashed in m dashed out in considerable pro- cn. Wolter was on_the Yanks when Birdie Cree, Russ Ford, Sweeney and that crew battled on the old Hill- top. , before the Yankees moved into the Polo Grounds in 1912. From 4he Yanks he went then returned | | | | the Southern Conference lead- | CRACK DARTMOUTH - QUINT PLAYS YALE All Teams in College Loop but Penn, Leader, Will Perform This Week. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 16.—Penn- sylvania's Quakers, pace-setters in the Eastern Collegiate Basket | Ball League, will be idle this | week, but a four-game schedule brings every other team into action at least | once. | The opening shot of the week will | be fired at New Haven tonight when | the Yale Bulldogs make their first | league start against Dartmouth. Yale has becn beaten only by Ford- | ham in six preliminary games, but the Elis will be short-enders against Dart- | mouth, generally rated an outstanding contender for the title now held by | Princeton. Dartmouth has split even | in two league contests, walloping Cor- | nell, 45-31, but dropping a 35-30 de- cision to Penn last Saturday, when the | Quakers hung up their second succes- | sive victory. Columbia, victor over Cornell, 38-34, Saturday night in its opening game, will invade Princ:ton tomorrow night to battle the champion Tigers. Prince- ton took a surprise 28-21 beating from Penn last Wednesday in its first league battle, but expects to turn back Columbia. On Saturday, Princeton will play Dartmouth at Hanover, and Cornell will invade New York to face Columbia. EADERS of the Eastern Intercol- legiate Basket Ball Conference, | Pittsburgh and Carnegle, clash at | Pittsburgh Wednesday night in the big- | gest conference battle of the week. | Each has won its first two starts, but Pitt seems somewhat the stronger. The only other conference game of the week will send Georgetown against Temple at Philadelphia Saturday. Tem- ple, with one victory over West Vir- ginia, and two defeats, by Pitt and Carnegie, will be favored. Georgetown lsazst1 Bm only conference duel to Pitt, | | A. A. U. INVITES RUNNERS NEW YORK, January 16 (#)—The Amateur Athletic Union has invited Luigi Beccali, Italian holder of the Olympic 1,500-meter championship, and Eri /Ny of Sweden to compete here during the forthcoming indoor season. No reply has been received yet to the invitation, but Dan Ferris, secretary- | TOUGH,KID BuT (WA NOT /N SO GOQD = 2 treasurer of the A. A. U, is confident both will accept. & cUT-\T's INSULT A SYMPATHETIC , BUT NOT 50 INTERESTED, AN AUDIENCE THIS SEMESTER - \T's” TOUGH, AND TRUE 8 Their careers were exactly Jones is today. There was another big difference. | Bobby Jones started his career watch- | ing Stewart Maiden's swings and swing- | ing under Maiden's critical guidance. | Travis started golf on his own, work- ink out his own swing, grip and stance. “I've often wondered,” he told me once, “what the difference would have been if I had started my golf under | some good instructor—whether I would | have been better, or wors: | As it was, Walter J. Travis had the | most remarkable golf beginning I ever heard of. | He started practice for the first time | at Oakland orie October day—a slender | man of 36, in poor health at the time. He continued his practice at Atlantic City that same Winter. The next Spring ke rode up to Meadowbrook on his bicycle and entered his first tourna- ment. He had no handicap, so he was en- | tered from scratch. He first won the | medal with an 80 and then went on to | win the tournament—and this was only six or seven mcnths after he started | golt. ! The Travis Way. | I CAN still recall the first golf match | | I ever played with Walter J.| | Travis at his favorite course, Gar- | den City. I had heard a lot about his alleged | dourness and his gruffness at times, but as the four-ball match started it | tourned out to be almost entirely a matter of his complete concentration on | every stroke. While waiting to drive from the fourteenth tee, some one told a funny, story. Every one laughed, except Travis, who had just taken out his driver. An hour later, back at the club, he suddenly started laughing. He had Just recalled the story which, at the moment of telling, had bounded back from the wall of his concentration. “I don’t believe,” he told me once, “that I ever played a careless stroke in golf. I have made bad strokes— | | but no careless ones. My system has | been to play every stroke as if I were playing in a championship set-to. “Golf to me is too great a game, too | fine a thing, to receive anything bat | the best one has to offer. As a result | of this method, I am under no greater | strain in a champlonship than I am in | a friendly match. This is the best method of developing the right sort of concentration—of making it a habit.” A remark Walter J. made to Chick | Evans is somewhat typical of the famous | veteran. | They had reached the semi-final stages of the amateur championship and were drawn together. The veteran came to the first tee with the habitual set, determined look on his face and the eternal long, black | cigar in his mouth. He stepped up to | the tee and cracked a perfect drive | down the middle of the course. | “Fine shot, Mr. Travis,” Evans said. “What the hell did you expect in the | semi-finals of a championship?” Walter J. remarked. ‘That broke up any further friendly | chatter—which was probably the idea | back of the answer. | The Putting Wizard. | | 'HERE was an old argument whether | ‘Walter J. Travis or Jerry Travers ‘was the greatest putter. Both used the Schenectady type of putter, which is center-shafted. | Travers was deadly on the greens, but I believe Travis could do more with a putter than anyone I ever saw play golf. In addition to his uncanny skill |upon the surface on the green, I have seen Travis many times use his putter from fairly steep traps. |, Both Travis and Travers practiced through interminable hours. Travis had | smaller cups built for the practice put- | ting greens at Garden City, cups not | much larger than a golf ball. If you | could hole a putt in t.gue smaller cups, the normal size looked to be a barrel. ‘Travis once made this remark about putting: “I imagine there is a small tack in the back of the ball, which I am to drive in.” THE SPORTLIGHT BY GRANTLAND RICE. HERE always has been doubt in my mind whether the most remarkable golfer I ever knew was Walter J. Travis or Bobby Jones. opposite in one way, at least—Jones | started golf at the age of 7—Travis started at the age of 36. ‘When Walter J. swung his first golf club he was 5 years older than Bob could beat any golfer in the world on a course only ten yards wide. I be. lieve this is true. In one tournament he hit three direction poles stuck in the middle of the course and barely | missed several others. I played with him at Garden City & short time before he died. He was a sick man then, with a temperature around 100. His drives were then piti- fully short, but even with this handicap he finished with a 75, having at least eight one-putt greens. In the matter of concentration and determination, I don't believe he ever had a superior on any golf course. . A. U. MAY LEAVE LOOP Virginia Conference Status to Be Determined February 1. ‘Whether American University is to remain a member of the Virginia Con- ference will be decided at a meeting to be held here February 1, according to Walter Young, A. U. athletic director. ‘The Eagles, with Willlam and Mary. are leading the conference basket ball race with two wins in as many starts. It is understood that some of the larger of the 10 schools making up the conference wish to separate from the schools that don't have the freshman rule. The Eagles are in the latter group. D. C. Cadet Gets Award. WEST POINT, N. Y., January 16— Wwilliam H. Jordan of Washington has been awarded class numerals in soccer at the United States Military Academy. Ak eI COUNTRY CLUB IS SOLD. Pawhuska, Okla, Country club— club house and 80 acres of land on which were a golf course and swimming pool—brought $3,600 when sold under foreclosure. One for the —It happened on B 00 k the diamond BY CHARLIE WHITE N 1923 the National League added slugging records to its statistics, so as to give credit to batsmen for making doubles, triples, homers, oh a percentage basis, by dividing times at bat into total bases. Babe Ruth holds the high- est slugging percentage for a the 458 times at bat in 1920. (He had .846 in 1921.) National League record is held by Rogers Hornsby .756, with 381 total bases in 504 times at bat in 1925. (Onmly E::ygra making 300 or more total es are considered.) The most double plays in a game by both clubs is nine. Detroit (5) vs. Washington (4), May 21, 1925, and Chicago (5), vs. Cincinnati (4), July 3, 19¢9. ‘Three home runs in a game dur- ing championship season have been made 37 times by 34 players: Gehrig, (3). George Kelly (2), 1884 to 1932, while four homers in a game have l&e:n made by Lowe, Delahanty and Ralph Perkins, Philadelphia, A. and James Wilson, Philadel; Like Travers he had the true pendu- lum system of putting, with & smooth, unhurried stroke, In speaking of Travis, I heard & vet- eran pro once say that the old man NOTRE DAME DINNER | ORATORS’ PARADISE | {Tames A. Farley Will Head Long| List of Speakers at Grid- iron Fete Tonight. | | By the Associated Press. | QOUTH BEND, Ind, January 16— James A. Farley of New York, chairman of ihe Democratic Na- tional Committee, will head a long list | | of speakers at the annual Notre Dame foot ball testimonial dinner tonight. The speakers, who will be introduced by James Crowley, member of Notre Dame'’s famous “four horsemen,” who recently resigned as head coach at Michigan State College to accept a similar place at Fordham, include: Gov. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, Mayor W. R._Hinkle of South Bend, Harry Kipke, head coach at Michigan; | Coach Charles E. Dorais of the Uni-| versity of Detroit, Coach Noble Kizer of Purdue, Coach Heartly (Hunk) An- derson of Notre Dame and Athletic Di- | rector Jesse Harper. | A captain for the 1933 season will be elected before the dinner. 3-CUSHION MASTERS | START TITLE QUEST |Two Matches on Today—Kieck- | hefer, Defending Champion, Plays | Jackson Tonight. | | | | By the Associated Press. | HICAGO, January-16.—Ten masters of the cue and ivory today opened | the annual battle for the world three-cushion billiards _championship | and the more substantial top prize of $5,000 and a share of the gate receipts. ‘The defending champion, left-handed | Augle Kieckhefer of Chicago, will make his first appearance in the tournament | tonight against Clarence Jackson of De- troit. Before that, however, two other matches were listed. In the opener, Otto Reiselt of Philadelphia, who fin- | ished second to Kieckhefer last year, | was matched with another veteran, Tiff | Denton of Kansas City, and Arthur | | ‘Thurnblad of Chicago and J. N. Boze- | man, jr., of Vallejo, Calif., were down for the other afternoon contest. Welker Cochran of Hollywood, Calif, | one of the greatest of balkline plavers, | will make his first effort in a world | three-cushion tournament against Allen Hall of Chicago. Johnny Layton of Sedalia. Mo., who. like Kieckhefer, has won the title 10 times, and Prank Scoville of Buffalo, N. Y., the other entrants, will get into actlon tomorrow. | ‘The tournament will extend over 18 playing days, with each aspirant en- | gaging in 45 matches at 50 points. e L 'PONZI CUE EVENT VICTOR | Coasts on Big Lead to Billiards | Win Over Rudolph. ‘ NEW YORK., January 16 (#)—An- | drew Ponzi of Philadelphia defeated Er- win Rudolph of Cleveland, 1,150 to 1,680, | in thelr pocket billiard match completed last night. | Ponzi won the afternoon block, 142 | |to 33 n 19 innings. He hed a high run of 41, Rudolph one of 46. | Rudolph outscored the Philadelphian, | | 147 to 125 in 27 innings last night, but could not overcome Ponzi’s big iead. | The high runs were 36 for Rudolph and | 80 for Ponzi NOW IT’S GENE’S TONSILS Recovered From Flu, Sarazen Must Undergo Throat Operation. SANTA MONICA, Calif, January 16 P).—An ration for the removal of his tonsils delayed until Wednesday the release from a local hospital of Gene Sarazen, United States and Brit- ish open golf champion. Sarazen was by his physi- clan, Dr. Robert to have recov- ered from the of influenza which forced him out of th Los Sors out Angeles Open T —By TOM DOERER BVERYTME A BALL PLA(RR. AHINKS OF A MENU, HE'LL REACH POR MiS CONTRACT.... TWo, RINGSIOE. NI e WHEN steaks Toreey, -Ar"o guusmur_ START. © CALL,JOE PLAYER WiLL BESIA To sew. = A MIRAGE..... Fight It Out on Dotted Line But Annual Baseball Salary Scuffle, as Usual, Is in Bag for the Magnut. BY TOM DOERER. HE battle of the dotted lines is waging. It's base ball's annual earache, But in a few weeks it will have simmered down to the pro- | American revolution — hardly| worth putting the funnies aside to give it an ear. It’s a one-sided battle. It's in the | bag from the start. And it does not take a blue print to te.l you who holds the sack. It isn’t Joe Ziich, the magnut, anyhow. | What can a player do with an un- signed contract? He would look sflly walking to the | plate with an unsigned parchment in his fin. He would not be able to hit with it; could not pay the grocer with & handful of dotted lines. There does not seem to be anything in particular a ball player can do with his unsigned contract. Of course he could appeal to Con- gress. He might demand his consti- tutional rights. He may even want to know what has become of three- point-two beer while he is visiting with the Representatives. Then again, he is likely to remember that if he does not append his signature neither Congress, Clark Gril Connie Mack nor Santa Claus is going to put sugar on his grape fruit | fmportant to & ball | player. Particularly when the club pays for it. A steak appetite on the ball club simmers cown to a cheese sandwich when its on the player. ‘There is no appetite like the one which the ball club digs down for. gentlemen. The town medico knows that when a ball heaver comes around | portions of an old-fashioned South | looking for a tonic for his appetite that, | the club owner's pocketbook is the best capsule the young man can take. This is the time of the year when a ball player brushes up on his read- ing. When he removes the boll weevils and the fruit flies from his bank book the figures show him that he'is reading bad mews or his mathematics is wrong again. He tips a waiter a dime, reaches for it and puts a nickle down instead, to prove there is nothing wrong with his arithmetic. ‘Those numerals tell him -in mowrn- ful tunes that he is either going to sign that contract pronto, or use scme- thing else in the place of money. * But he sometimes makes a mis- take and thinks the bank’s adver- - tised surplus is his account, and wires the ball club for “se h, or nothing.” He gets nothing in return. We wires again, and when & post card arrives a few weeks later he thinks the National economy lan was mapped out by a base I manager, and finally signs at the club’s terms. It's an old, old story. And this year's is going to be no different from las only there will be more wails. LEGION BOXERS DATED ‘Will Engage Fort Humphreys Team on January 24. American Legion boxers of this city, coached by Jack Whil ley, will engage Fort Humphreys' ringmen in a meet in the latter's gymnasium the night of January 24, Jimmy De Capua, véteran battler, is coach of the Army squad. Eight three-round bouts are planned, | as follows: 118 _pounds—Nay Palmer (Legion) vs. rry ONell (Fort Humphreys): 155 pounds | Lou Jamison (Legion) vs. Chancey Rep- | pert (Fort Humphreys). 143 pounds—Dous- Keyes (Legjon) vs. Ted Julius (Fort Hum- phreys): 147 pounds— Herb Vermilli Legion) vs. Prank Lis (Fort Humphrey. 149 pounds — Berry ~Jenkins (Legion) Young Wowkowski (Fort Humphreys)- 160 pounds—Jack . Baxter (Legion) vs. Bobby Jones (Fort Humphreys): 160 pounds—Joey Pollock _(Legion) _ Vs. Beninski Humphreys):. 175 _pounds — Lee Crs (Tegion) vs. Floyd Hi (Fort Humphreys). Je vs. MEET ON YARDAGE BASIS No Switch to Meters by Colleges | Until After Indoor Games. NEW YORK, January 16 (#).—The 1. C. 4-A’s indoor track and field cham- | plonships, an annual fixture here in | March, will be held on a yardage basis after all. i ‘The Advisory Committee of the I. C.| 4-A decided last night to delay the | switch from yards to meters until after | the indoor intercollegiates. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. AKE STAHL, manager of the world champion Boston American League base ball club, figures to continue to play firs¢ base next sea- son. Catholic University has a crack basket ball team. Keegan, Derby, Clancy, Horan, McDonald, Lambert and Donnelly are leading members of the squad. ‘With Mulligan coaching at Western High, Bill Foley piloting the Central and Brailey Gish tutoring at Tech, the public high school championship track meet this is expected to be closely con- SCHOOLBOY QUINTS FACE HARD BATTLES Eastern Meets Tech and Central Takes on Roosevelt in Series Tomorrow. HIRLWIND action is expected to mark both the public high school basket ball title games tomorrow afternoon on the Tech court, with East- ern meeting Tech and Roosevelt facing Central. The opener will start at 3:30 o'clock. Eastern and Tech, both defeated by Central, will be struggling to remain in the pennant fight, while Roosevelt is set for a desperate attempt to halt the headlong flag rush of Centrals high-scoring machine, Tech and Cen- tral are the favorites. Some observers look for upsets. They point out that the series so far has provided none and that some are due. In other tilts tomorrow, Western, idling in the series, faces George Wash- ington’s freshmen at Western, Alexan- dria High and St. John's mix at St. John’s and Friends and Georgetown |Prep have a rendezvous at Garrett Park. Games today were listed between Gonzaga and George Washington's yearlings on the G. W. court, Landon and Georgetown Prep at Garrett Park and Roosevelt and Washington-Lee High at Roosevelt, No less an authority than W. Dewey Haight, pular official scorer for the public h school court series, is re- sponsible for the information that Al Waters, Eastern, is leading for individ- ual scor henors _with 35 points. ‘Waters has caged 13 floor goals and has made good on nine of 12 tries from the foul line, says Sir Walter. Shorty H.u'fl.é Roosevelt, with 29 points, stands second. Others in the first 10 are: Carroll Shore, Central, 23; Bill Burke, Central, 22; Joe Sherman, Roosevelt, and Bernie Richhardt. Tech, 21; Tommy Nolan. Eastern, 20; Jack Moulton, Central, and Red Daly. Tech, 19, and Buddy Nau, An indoor track meet for schoolboys may be held later this Winter in the Catholic University gymnasium. Hap it rmere "are various. Ghstacies to tion of the C. V. has left the scholasties an indoor POLICY T00 LOOSE, AUTHORITIES HOLD |Better to Give Up Sports Than Abandon Academic Control Is Claim. N for students to carry on with sports, which have been droppea at various univer- sities and colleges, comes the warning voice of educators who are concerned, among other duties, with the conduct of ath- leties. “It is not in any way certain,” sald Prof. Philip O. Badger, vice chancellor of New York University and chairman of the athletic administration of this institution, to the writer today, “that any university would be justified in re- linquishing supervision of athletes, let- ting them go off on their own. “If certain sports must be dropped, I believe they must be eliminated for the time being absolutely. Would an insti- tution be living up to its responsibility to its students in letting them pack off hit or miss in automobiles to visiting other colleges for games, permitting them in other ways to conduct athletics in loose order? I hardly think so. “Very speedily, I think, regrettable situations would develop. Intercollegiate sport cannot be carried on in this way, and so far as my university is con- cerned, I do not think we would be of & mind to sanction it.” N this attitude, Prof. Badger is sup- ported by William J. Bingham, di- rector of athletics at Harvard, who believes that a rigid ban upon such intercollegiate sports’'as a college feels it cannot support would be far less un- fortunate than giving undergraduates free headway to do as they please. “The theory,” Fe says, “of giving the game to the boys has a fine sound, but we know that the only safe and sane conduct of intercollegiate sport is one of direct supervision and control by re- sponsible academic authorities. Too many evils could easily develop. among them the playing of ringers, of ineligible athletes and many other things that mean little to boys when off on their own and yet are extremely important from the standpoint of a university. “We are not dropping any sport, but if we were I am inclined to believe it would have to be a complete elimina- tion, with accent being transferred to intramural activities.” writer gathers that Cornell's "h'h' le \e‘{ilmlnallnn of intercol- legiats svorts came as a surprise to sister collegzes and is regarded by them as {ll-dvised in its drastic nature, statement of Romeyn Berry, graduate manager of athlelics at Cors nell, that bovs who want to row will find no towels. no hat water, no soap, no launches at the boat house, is re- garded as pretty disheartening. At least could there not have been hot water? Certainly there is always an adequate supply of hot alr in university athletie centers. As for launches, Cornell would be doing no service to her students or to parents of boys committed to the care of the university in letting oars- men in fragiie shells go out on Cayugs | Lake unattended by power craft. Far better that the boat houses be locked and shells dismantled. It would seem, in fine, that fll-con- sidered ditching of sports is not at all in order and that what is done should receive some thought over and above the fact that some money will be saved, CUBS BUY HENDRICK |Lift Player Columbus Got From Reds Not Long Ago. CHICAGO, January 16 (#).—The purchase of Harvey Hendrick from the Columbus club of the American Asso- ciation by the Chicago Cubs has been announced. Hendrick, who last year was with Cincinnatl and before that with Brook=- lyn. was turned over to Columbus sev- eral days ago. The Cubs acquired him presumably as a utility first baseman, although he has played much in the outfleld since he entered the National League in 1922. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. EW YORK, January 16.—In the midst of preparations LUSNICS CLAIM TITLE Maryland Semi-pro Laurels Seen in Win at Cumberland. CUMBERLAND, Md, January 16.— Scoring over the Knights of Columbus quint here yesterday, 48 to 36, Lustine- Nicholson basketers of Hyattsville are claiming the Maryland semi-pro title. Joe Croson. Bob Wilson and Bozie | Berger headed the attack that resulted in the downfall of the previously un- beaten Caseys. The Lusnics are made up largely of members of the 1931 Uni- versity of Maryland Southern Confer- ence championship team. Basket Ball Tips BY JOE GLASS. ITTSBURGH, under the expert tutelage of Coach “Red” Carl- son, is using & snappy tip-off play which hinges not only upon center getting the tip but executing a speedy pivot out of the center ring to take a quick pass from the mam to whom he tips the ball. Right forward (5) comes in to take the tip, which has no sooner heen made bv center (1) than he | | pivots out of the center ring and | around his guard. No, § shoves the | ball back to him. At the tip, left forward (3) has faked toward center as if to take the ball, but he reverses and cuts for the basket. No. 1 can dribble | in, but he usually passes to 3. If the latter is not too closely guarded | he can shoot for the basket. = from his guard. Next: uylf'!"'. play off enemy