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THE SUNDAY STAR. ASHINGTON, C, MARCH 19, 1933—P FIV e e I ———————— Sports Boom Precedes Business Pick-Up : Driver Sees Bright Era for Colleges. SELL-OUTS, RECORD CROWDS NUMEROUS A. A. U. Thought to. Call Off Basket Tourney—Mark Is Set in Attendance. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. AS any one realized that the soaring stock market and a better business feeling throughout the country had as their precurser a genuine boom in sports? It may be a matter of interest far the country to know that in the East the Intercollegiate Bas- ket Ball League broke all records Jor attendance this season. Never in the history of this organi- wation have ticket sellers been so busy. ‘This because competition was keen and spirited and the public was willing to | turn out. ‘The Winter sports carnival at Dart- mouth attained its apogee in point of entrants, spectators and enthusiasm. The Knights of Columbus games at the Madison Square Garden on Wed- nesday night were a complete sell-out. ‘They turned ’em away. The previous Millrose A. C. games in the Garden were another sell-out. ! A ND now listen to the story of the | National A. A. U. basket ball championships at Kansas City. ‘The bank holiday was declared two days before the week of basket ball was to be held and the promoters trembled with fear as they faced what they fully expected would be a dis- astrous financial flop. It was about decided to call off the event when the fact that a number of teams were on their way to Kansas City was brought to the attention of the authorities. 80 it was decided to go through with the affair. And what happened? The big Convention Hall was packed to the doors every single night of the week and an attendance record was estab- 1is] hed. At the A. A. U. national champion- ships in Madison Square Garden the number of spectators broke all records for this meet, more than 14,000 sit- in. leven thousand spectators spent money to witness the amateur ockey matches in Madison Square Garden last Saturday afternoon and in | the evening 15,000 watched the Rang- ers and the Americans play. 'OR the ill-fated Carnera-Schaaf fight you could not buy a ticket st the entrance after 8 o'clock. What does it all men? Daniel Fer- ¥is, secretary of the A. A. U, thinks that the public has turned from ex- tremely high-priced entertainment to the more moderate-priced athletic ws. -hgllesmen for athletic goods who gravel throughout the country, advise the writer that there is a better feel- tng everywhere with respect to spend- ing money and that, thus minded, they are returning to the old gods. Old friends are getting together in greater pumbers. Ed Thorp, the sporting spe- clalist, who speaks at many school ond college foregatherings, says that ©ld grads who have not come forth in years have returned to the convivial fold. Certainly it does seem that in ath- letics the old gang is beginning to hold ts e up again and that every one ;IM :.‘dr!npel‘ed impulse to see some one die for dear old Siwash. SPRING SPORTS GET CALL AT NAVY NOW Oarsmen and Trackmen Join Base Ball and Lacrosse Squads in Work Outdoors. i NAPOLIS, March 18.—The present .AN week marked a definite shift of | the main athletic activities at the | Naval Academy from the sports of | Winter to those of Spring. There are a few more contests on the Winter schedule, but from now on the chle(: dnterest will be centered on the other dines. uring the week, oarsmen shifted | lrcnm tank and machines to the open water, the track men moved from the lank course to the cinders and base all and lacrosse candidates took to the field. Spring foot bell practice also e fatches In several lines are scheduled for April 1, and by tae middle of that ‘month, the schedules in all sescnal lines will be underway. Coach Walsh of the oarsmen is earrying out his plan postponing the selection of a varsity boat crew until April 1. He is stressing individual in- struction. His plan is distinctly original as it is usual among college coaches to select a tentative varsity almost at the outset. George Findlayson, head lacrosse ooach, with his assistants, Clem Spring and Joe Bauer, is busy in adapting his players to the new rules, flx:l\s the size of the team at 10 players diminishing the size of the field. There is an excellent nucleus of old players. Those considered regulars ‘who Temain from last year are: G. Fergu- son (captain). in home; Morton, first mttack; Howard, second attack; . Smith, first defense, and Tyler, second defense. Bird and Reedy, who did some playing at goal, are also at hand, and Ray Thomspon, a regular defense man in 1931, will play after a year's absence. Four big foot ball men are the lead- ing candidate, for the point and cover point. They are Clark, Mini, Larsen and Schacht. The base ball squad, coached Ifl‘ Lieut. Austin K. Doyl?. has “Slim’ rt, a veteran of two seasons, z“fi';epomwh(na’ mainstay, with Clute end Davis giving promise. ARMSTRONG HIGH WINS National Colored Tourney Tilt Goes to Local Five, 40-15. HAMPTON, Va. March 18.—Arm- strong High School basketers of Wash- ington drubbed the Johnson County High team of Smithfield, N. C., 40 to 15, in the semi-finals of the national colored interscholastic tourney here to- Harper, f... 0 Hinton, 1. Canady, Furell. DIAMOND TILTS WANTED. Sewanee A. C. unlimited diamond:rs are seeking to arrange several dates with out-of-town nines for their base ball Griffs Execute Thrilling Plays Special Dispatch to The Star. ORLEANS, March 18.—Al- though beaten by the Indians today, the Nationals garnered all the fieldipg laurels of the game. Goose Goslin, Ossie Bluege and Joe Cronin, with brilliant defensive plays, had the 1,000 in the Heinemann Park stands pop-eyed. At the outset of the fourth frame, the Goose dashed far to his left for a shoe-top one-hand grab of Ed Morgan’s fast-falling liner. In the sixth, Bluege made a spectac div- ing catch of Ralph Winegarner's liner to start a double play. Cronin, in the fifth, raced far back on the grass for a scoop of Joe Vosmik's bad bound and while off balance heaved for a force play at second. GYMNASTIC TITLE ISTAKEN BY NAVY Beats Dartmouth to Clinch Honors—Rifle Team and Fencers Also Win. Special Dispatch to The Star. NNAPOLIS, Md, March 18— Defeating Dartmouth today, 32 to 20, in the last dual match of the local season, Navy's gymnasts clinched the championship of the Intercollegiate Association for the fifth successive year and the six- teenth time in 17 seasons. Connolly, Navy, negotiating the 20- foot rope in four and a tenth seconds, knocked a tenth of a second from the intercollegiate record. Brilliant performances were made by Curtze, Navy, on the horizonal bar; Denton, Navy, on the s, and Schuyler, Dartmouth, in tumbling. Navy fencers defeated the Columbia bladesmen, 13 to 4, leading with the foils by 7 to 2, taking all four bouts ‘with the epee and getting an even break in the four saber encounters. Grubbs of Navy was in especially fine form, taking all three of his bouts with the foils and both with the epee. AVY'S indoor rifle team completed its preliminary season with a clean string of victories by scoring 1,387 iversiy, 1384, a4 Washingion ahe niversity, 1,284, ani An Lee, 1,208 Shooting was from the prone, kneel- ing and standing positions, and the Navy's superiority was particularly marked in the last-named style. Midshipman Blenman outshot all the veterans and led with 282 points out of a possible 300. Navy plebe fencers closed their sea- son by defeating Baltimore City Col- lege, 7 to 2. The foll was the only weapon used and both Carmichael and H;:ger of the plebes had perfect rec- ords. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. 'RANK GARGAN has announced he again will coach the George- town University foot ball squad next Fall. Hoffecker and Loomis seem cer- tain to be the pitching mainstays of the Maryland Agricultural College team. Hindman is showing prom- ise as a hurler. Calvo and Acosts, Cubans, are to ble ;eumed by the Washington" ball club. George McBride, shortstop, is showing fine form at the Naticnals' training camp at Charlottesville. Moffett, Mason and Gregory starred as the Railroad Y. M. C. A. basket ball quint rallied to win the last game of a serles from the Church of Good Shepherd quint. Freeman and R. Nevitt played well for the lceers. Kelly, Business High pitcher, is shaping up as a fine schoolboy hurler. Adams, former Western High and Army and Navy Prep School dia- monder, is playing with the Naval Academy nine. Belmonts won all three games from the Saengerbunds in the Dis- trict Duckpin League. Belmonts used Halley, Oliver, Baum, Rider, Michaud and Borden. Representing the locers were Burley, Wolf, Ledy, Dakin and Hamner. & W.HUSTLES GRID, DIAMOND ATHLETES Base Ball Coach Has 70 Men, All Strangers, to Pick From. Ends Needed. G and foot ball, hopeful of fa- vorable weather, have ordered full steam ahead for their respective squads in practice this week on Tidal Basin flelds. More than 100 athletes were signed up for Spring drills last week, this number constituting some- thing of & record in Colonial sports history. Coach Ed Morris is particularly anxious to up base ball practice, for he has given the assignment of turning out the first diamond team representing George Washington in 30 years. The Colonial nine will play a schedule of night games in Griffith Stadium for the benefit of the National Capital Civic Fund. Despite the fact that nearly 70 boys turned out, Morris smilingly goes about the big task of selecting what will form the varsity squad, and in view of the fact that practically all of his charges are new to him, thus affording him lit- tle or no information as to their actual ability, the job cut out for him is cer- tainly no cinch. 'O days out of doors last week found the squad, divided into groups, engaged in batting and flelding drills. A few more days of this, says Morris, will greatly help in determining which candidates are likely to prove of service. ady, to cite one case, Morris has discovered a promising player in Otts Zahn, captain of the G. W. 1932-1933 basket ball team. Zahn, who has played EORGE WASHINGTON UNI- VERSITY coaches of base ball considerable base ball in high school | and sandlot circles, is giving a good a« | count of himself at first base, a tion that is new to him. Ordinarily a second baseman, Zahn is receiving a test at the initial sack, where his height and reach are found advantageous. In the meantime, George Irving, the only left-hander in the entire squad, also is battling for first base recognition. The foot ball coaches, Pixlee, Walsh, Myers and Lee, are doing some experi- menting, too, on the adjacent field. Joe Edwards and Hank Strayer, who were halfbacks last Fall, are drilling at end and guard, respectively, while Bill Par- rish, who performed both at fullback and tackle, is being used at end. Re- gllcemem of the graduating ends, hambers, Mulvey and Galloway, is gram. probably the biggest problem the Colo- nials mentors face in trying to prepare & team for their pretentious 1933 schedule. UNITED BRETHREN LOSES Quint Bows to Calvary Baptist for First League Defeat. United Brethren tossers, playing without their captain, Rea, lost their first game in the Jurior Sunday School Basket Ball League, bowing to the Cal- vary Baptist quint in a 25-to-16 match yesterday at the Boys’ Y. M. C. A. Har- ris and Garrison led the winners' at- tack. Summary: U. Brethren Barber. 1. Cal. Coftey. Garrison. " 1. Thompson. ¢ Harris. &... Baptist ox. Helnzman, Totals ... Referee—Mr. | Sets Schoolboy Swimming Mark By the Associated Press. , Pa, March 18.—At the annual Lehigh University scholastic swimming tourna- ment, Baker Bryant of Bexley High, Columbus, Ohio, broke the world interscholastic record today for 100 yards. He made the distance in 54 3-10 seconds, clipping 1-10 of & second off the old meet record, which he held. Bt;:lunt also won the 50-yard free style. A. Vanderveght, a Paterson, N. J., high school boy, established 'a new record in the 100-yard backstroke with a mark of 1:144. MARYLAND U, LISTS 43 VARSITY EVENTS 21 Contests in Base Ball, Track, Lacrosse, Tennis Carded at Home. U area to have a Spring sports program of any extent, has 43 varsity contests listed, with 21 of them slated for decision at College Park. | Only the track team will stage more of its events away than at home. Eighteen base ball games, witn nine away and as many at College Park, have been listed; there will be six la- crosse tilts, four at home: the tennis |team will be host in 7 of its 11 matches, but the tracksters will travel | for all of their eight meets except one. |, Burton Shipley, with Rosy Pollock helping, is handling the base ballers again; ‘Jack Faber, assisted by Ivan Marty and Al Heagy, is in charge of | the stickmen; ~Geary Eppley tutors | both the varsity and freshman track |5quads, and the tennis aggregation | Will have its first director and mentor in Leslie Bopst, associate State chemist. All of the squads, except the rack- | eters, are well on their way in prac- tice, and the netmen expect to busy this week. Weather conditions | have retarded in putting the courts in | shape | _ Maryland also will hold its annual ‘fleld day on May 6. in which an open scholastic meet and closed events for | county high schools feature the ?ro- Varsity events that day include me with Duke, a lacrosse th Rutgers and a tennis match with Hopkins. The varsity schedules: Track. April 8—V. M. I at Lexington. | 10—Washington and Lee at Lexington. 14—Richmond U. 22—Navy at An- ‘ng‘polls. 29—Penn Relays at Philadel- phia. May 1—Virginia at Charlottesville. 13—Southern Conference meet. 20— Johns Hopkins at Baltimore, Base Ball. April 14—Penn State. 17—Duke at | Durham (double-header). 18—North | Carolina_at Chapel Hill. 19—Virginia at Charlottesville. 20—Richmond U. at Richmond. 21—Willlam and s NIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, the only college in the Distriet a ball | clash A MIGHTY MIDSHIPMAN, HE WAS A MEMBER. OF WE 1932 OLYMRg, T:A'u [ RAY HOLOS TUE 50 AWD 100D #R: RECOROS AT Gis ACADEMY Al Righis Raserved by The Associated Press ESME O University of Maryland Girl Displaced as Rifle Champion| Y & margin of 3 points, Irene Knox of the University of Mary- | land has been dethroned as| ‘women's national intercollegiate rifie champion, according to announce- ment yesterday by the National Rifle Association. Her conqueror, Harriet Woodward of the University of Wash- ington, Seattle, equaled the record of 599 out of a possible 600 points estab- lished last year by Miss Knox. Miss Knox’s 586 put her in Aifth place this year. Each competitor fired 60 shots from prone. | Nasomi Myers of George Washington | junior match, with 383 out of a possible | was twelfth with 500. She was the highest strictly District of Columbia | girl in the match. Oscar T. Neal, also of George Wash- ington, was the highest District of Co- | lumbla contestant in the men’s collegi- | ate championship, finishing ninth with | 543 out of a possible 600. The cham- | plonship was won by the 1932 scholastic | titlist, ld Cook of Washington State | University, with 585. The match called for 20 shots each from prone, kneeling | and standing. THOMPSON- = CAOTAIN OF THE NAVY SWMMING TEAN RS AMoNE TE HONOR MEN AT _ANNAPOLIS N the women's individual 50-foot championship, which she won last year, Miss Knox placed second. Her * score was 398 out of 400, the same count which won the event for her in 1932, but Mrs. Edna L. N.J., was 1 point higher. Randolph Grimm. Western High School, made a fine fight for the indi- vidual scholastic title, but lost in the| the individusl championships of the | shoot-off. He and Thomas Ride of El- | gin, TIL, both shot perfect 400s, or 40! straight’ bull's-eyes, but the Elgin con- | tender achieved 59 extra bulls in the shoot-off, while Grimm's run stopped with his ninth. Hal Clagett, another Western High entry, was fourth in the individual 400. G.Swannack of Portersville, Calif., won with 388, While the shooting in the scholastic | match was all from the prone position, | the individual! junior match was fired from prone, sitting, kneeling and stand- ing. a much harder test All the matches were conducted by the National Rifle Association. The contestants used .22-caliber rifles and fired on their own indoor ranges, send- ing their targets to N. R. A. headquar- ters here for ofcial scoring. at Williamsburg. 26—Virginia. Dickinson at Carlisle (pending). May 6—Duke. 9—Washington and 13—V. P. L 16— 18—V. P. L at Lee. 12—V. M. L North _Carolina. P T Blacksburg. 20—Navy at Annapolis. | 22—Western Maryland. 24—Washing- ton College. Lacrosse. 17 Lucky Number For Pitt Tossers ITTSBURGH, March 18 (®).— Henceforth 17 {s the lucky num- ber of the Pittsburgh Panthers’ basket ball team. Pitt defeated the Carnegie Tech ‘Tartans last night by a 17-point mar- gin, 38 to 21. It was the Panthers’ seventeenth victory of the season, their seventeenth consecutive win over Carnegie (in six years), Pitt scored 17 points in the first half, the two teams combined made 17 fouls and it was the 17th of March. Of course, if you began figuring such things as the 17 letters in the name of Dr. Clifford Carlson, Pitt's coach, and the fact that the defeated team was the Tartans of Carnegie (count ’em) there might be no end to that sort of thing. HIS Mr. Dave Harris, the sheriff man from Carolina, craves action. The Griff pinch hitter, who led the league last year and the year before knocking in special runs, is telling everybody who'll listen down at Biloxi he isn't getting enough work. He tells all and any one who will listen that he would break the league in half if he ever got the chance to work every day. worried about schedule. Manager C. E. Derby may be communicated with at 237 Ninth street asutheast. W Last year Dave was being traded. This semester he arg:es-bouznoflmumueldlfly worker. He’d Be a Wow Of Action, Says Dave Harris if Given Lots DAVE HARRSS “ICRAVE ACTION™ “I crave action,” wails Dave. And not only does he yodel it to the boys wh> will listen, but goes further than that. He tells the bossmen. Having big hearts, Cronin and Griff have agreed to help a man who Harris played fl{s!t'g;:e’ down in the hominy ts belt 3 ‘Huan chances to show that he is sincere in his desire to work will be given him when the team comes North. and Cronin both admitted “w T that April 15—Penn State. Annapolis . 22—Navy at 13—Washington Homewood. April 1—Navy at Annapolis. 12— Virginia. 21—Western Maryland at | Westminster. 28—Virginia at Char- | lottesville. 29—William and Mary at | Williamsburg | “"May 1—North Carolina. 6—Hop- kins, 8—William and Mary. 12—Pitt. 19—Western Maryland. 2i—Delaware. VARSITY SPRING GRID | WORK NOW HUMMING Squads Toiling as Hard as in Fall. Regular Programs Great- ly Curtailed. OCAL college foot ball squads now are working just about as hard as they ever do in the Fall and no slackening of the pace is likely for the next four weeks probably. It is the intention of most ef the local gridiron coaches to discontinue practice when the Easter vacations be- gin. All seem to think that it would hardly be worth while to resume drills after that, because of the hot weather that usually comes along about that time and also because the men them- selves would be ltkely to lose interest. ‘The shortest Spring programs that have ever been held for local colleges are scheduled this year. Maryland has the longest and it is cutting its list. Georgetown and Gallaudet are the only other schools that plan anything in the way of interco'legiate competition, and they also are enforcing the most rigid eccnomy in their outlays. One evidence of economy now being exercised by colleges in the South is the curtailment of guarantees, espe- cially for base ball. Until this vear, it has been a\:mry in thelsmmwm Conference pay reciproca - tees of $150 for a ball game, g:‘lt for the coming season that is to be cut down to $75 and $100. As one of the coaches expressed it, “This lower guar- antee will look better on our books for all of us, as it will not seem that we are losing so much money in base ball. We expect to #n behind a little on the trips, so that should not matter.’ “Y” FIVE IS WINNER. “Y" Eagles downed the Chevy Chase quint, 19-14, vesterday at basket ball on _the Boys Y' M. C. A. court. .,_ swsuos® ORI »| o@rrm | ooruawt Al vweoom0 - 13 30 Williams. QUINT WINS BY 72-16. Reynolds and Lembach led the “Y” Flashes to a run-away 72-16 basket ball win over the Wilson Flashes yesterday on the Boys' Y. M. C. A. court. Summary: e 2, Y* Flashes (721, Q T Ballis® »| 033558 31 CAVALIER TWIRLERS | ARE WELL ADVANCEDi Reach Curving Stage, but Work of Squad Limited on Account of Examinations. Speeial Dispatch to The Star. | March 18.— plichers have started ‘em.” With little more |than two weeks remaining before the | opening game the Cavalier mound can- ali:.m are all getting their arms in shape. | Examinations now are in progress and will continue for another week. | Until they are over, Coach Gus Tebell, | won't be able to get his entire squad | together every day. Meanwhile he is| concentrating on the pitchers while he keeps an eye out for other positions. | Ward Brewer, co-captain of the ’33| ball club, “Peck” Luck and George §0 places Added to the squad ~ Orlin 3 flt—huwer, ‘wWho was llrlth -year team a year strength to the varsity this season. This is the first time in many !elrx\ that Virginia has had four good hurlers. “Buck” Poss, who is co-captain along | with Brewer, is doing the catching again. Sam Lee and er Charles are veteran inflelders. Outfield posts still | are uncertain, though Homer Drissel is sure to fill one of them as he did a year sgo. LATE GOAL WINS GAME Freedmen Nurses Defeat Lakeland in Last Minute, 13-12. | A last-minute basket by Shelton en- abled the Freedmen’s Hospital Nurses| to evn1uer the Lakeland (Md.) High| School t ball team, 13 12, yes- Lk ic gave nners & three-game series. In a preliminary the Twelfth Street Y Flashes downed the Lakeland boys' Summaries: Nurses (13). G.F.Pts. | os00mas; [ eoremmsnef Totals . ciee et Bl this season is | by expected to add | M | Tilinots. SHOLL’S BOOST STREAK Runs Wins to 48, Giving Delhuds First Loss in 24 Games. Sholl's Cate overcame s S5 20 At night ot the Doyt son t, 3 af 3 Club. It was the winners’ forty-eighth 2traight victory and the losers’ first de. feat in 24 starts, From the outset it was a battle royal, with the score tied no less than tli’n;. At the half, Sholl's was ahead, sholl's ( 3 D. & H 25 MICHIGAN SWIMMERS KEEP BIG TEN TITLE| Wolverines Pile Up 40 Points to 27 for Northwestern in Chi- cago U. Pool. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, March 18.—Michigan to- night retained the Western Con- ference swimming championship, piling up 40 points to 27 for Northwest- | emn, in the annual meet held in the University of Chicago pool. Summaries: 100-YARD RELAY—Won by Northwestern (Hahne, Debenh: second. Michigan: third. Illinois; _fourth, Minnesota. Time, 3:40.4. (New Western Conference record’ for 20-yard pool. - For- mer record. 3.43. by Ilinois in" trials last g) 200-YARD BREAST STROKE—Won by Horn, Northwestern: second. Lemak. Michi- an: third, Dwyer. Chicago; fourth, Glomset. Chicago. ' Time. Conference record Horn in trials last night national collegiate record of Schmieler. Michigan, in 1 440-YARD FREE STYLI ich cond. Kennedy. Michi fourth, Heweit, Illinois.” Time, er nd. Northwestern: secol nols: third. Schmieler, Mi Troup. Northwestern me 150-YARD BACK STROKEWon by Moul- ton. Minnesota: second. Van Gunten. INli- nois: _third. Hines li- Tlinols: fourth, Ander- 14 e, von by Desener, Michi u g e Northwestern, fourth. Manon Chicagn. 123.46 270:YARD SWIM—Won by Ci igan: second. Kennedy. Michi Brock. Tlinois; fourth, Grove, 300-YARD MEDLEY RELAY—Won by Michigan (Schmieler. Lemak. Renner): sec- gnd. Northwestern: third. Minnesota; fourth, ime. C Junicrs Take Field Today, Hold Meeting Friday Night. Stansbury A. C. junior base ballers will' hold their first workout of the sea- son this afternoon at 1 o'clock on the No. 1 diamond at Fairlawn fleld. Manager Crittenden requests all play- .| ers of last year and any new candidates to report promptly. The regular meet- ing will beprheld Friday at 2124 Minne- sota avenue southeast. For games with the Stansburys, call Crittenden at Lincoln 3778. Carr’s Running Pauch of Somerville, | am, Troup and Highland): | ARMY OR NAVY DUE TO WIN GYM TITLE ‘eams, Easily Best in Country, Meet in League Matches at Point April 8. | NNAPOLIS, March 18.—The meet- ing of the gymnastic teams of the Naval and Military Academies in Intercollegiate Gymnastic League West Point on April 8 will practically decide collegiate leadership in that | sport, though the team championship | of the league already will have been | decided by the results of the matches | among the members. The Military Academy is not a mem- ber of the league, though its entries will be received in the individual cham- | plonships, which it will entertain. These contests, however, furnish a method of | unofficial team ranking by the assign- | ment of the usual number of points to | each place winner. Gym teams of the service academies | have carried all before them this year and easily are the best two teams in | the East. However, the Nayy, on ac- | of securing the largest number of points of any entry. Curtze, on the bars; | Denton, fiying rings, and Connolly and | Barclay, rope climbers, are the Navy | aces, . COMMERCE IS VICTOR Commerce defeated the Government | Printing Office last night in the fea- ture contest of the Colored Depart- mental Basket Ball League, 31 to 29. The contest was a thriller. Liberty Loan trounced the Treasury, 31 to 16, the winners holding the edge throughout. War College continued to lead the !league with a win over State, 43-36. | The Soldiers were tralling at intermis- | slon. | War Colle e (47) FPis. Shepparson . 0o | Mobley 02 | Butler . 113 | Coldizg | Sould Ha: Ja | Totals ... Liberty Loa: Covington, . Btate (36 GF &l owzuanz0’ PP Sl e=3Zz0b 0 (3] P cooy wol 3 ruaoural | somses | someZies 3 1 Haywood. & Tobias, Berger Is Slated For New Orleans Special Dispatch to The Star. ORLEANS, March 18— Louis (Bozy) Berger, former of Maryland at Association this year, according to officials of the club here. Berger, in training here with the Indians, is along well, say those who ve watched him at practi wever, had been opti by Cleveland. | widespread | count of several real stars, is confident | VIRGINIA U, LEADER 1S REAL OPTIMIST Thinks Prosperity Ahead for Institutions Who Build on Sound Basis, BY H. C. BYRD. ONTRARY to a good many opinions expressed during the last year, Jimmie Driver, athletic director of the University of Virginia, gives it as his opinion that college ath- letics, instead of being on the to- boggan, headed for dire ruin, are generally due for a prosperous era and one of the brightest periods of their development. Since college sports began really to feel the depression, not many optimistic views have been heard, and it is re- freshing indeed to have one in close touch with rts management as Dliv"r ook to ggmt\u’e with such high Stopping off at Washington on his way back to Charlottesville from Penn State, where he attended the meeting of the Boxing Rules Committee of the Natlonal Collegiate Athletic Association, Driver talked freely of athletics gener- ally and also of sports at Virginia. And his view of the upturn at Virginia is just as bright as his conception of what may be expected generally. “All this talk about college athletics being headed toward ruin and disaster is foolishness, in my opinion” says Driver. “We have everything to look forward to and, if I am any judge of the American people and their desire to keep contact with sports of all kinds, you will see bigger foot ball games and better attenced games, you will - see larger crowds at all kinds of contests. | “AND furthermore, you will find that | college athletics appeal just as i much to the average college man for participation as they ever did. Once ‘l:m: :-rule you may hear of some chap | omes out and says that he hates | foot ball and boxing and that both are drudgery, but I have yet to come in contact with such an athlete, and I've been connected with college athletics for i hacvue o g0 Ause a good many of .lnymu more attention to phyymuiuedm cation, and seeking to develop ways and means to reach all students with a p! program, that does not mean that we are giving less attention to intercollegi- ate l:u‘n])!!lufll.1 AC!IlAall_", I believe that participation of the student body of any university in‘el.ll:::f mural sports will increase the activity | and desire on the part of more students to make intercollegiate teams. | _“Iknow that when we put on an intra- | mural program in any sport, immedi- ately begin to come in requests from students interested in that sport for the | arrangement of an intercollegiate sched- | ule. They all want to meet a team in | that sport representing another univer- | sity. No, sir; you just cannot kil in red- | blooded young Americans the desire to | take part in competitive sports. And | the rougher the sports are the more | liking the boys have for them.” ¢ A 8 far as I know,” continued Driver, | “the only people who have at. times got disgusted with college | sports are those who, by one means or \another, have built their programs on | shaky foundations. Naturally, when pro- grams of that kind begin to totter thers is something of an inclination to blame |it on the sports rather than to accept blame where it properly belongs. You |can use as fine materials as you please, |and the best cement in the world, but if you erect a house on the sands that house is not going to last. It may last 8s long as everything is fine and there are no storms, but when the storms come and the sands begin to wash away the | house falls. | . “That about tells the story of a good done in recent years ¢ al }lh.ll has been n college athletice. But there is - son to blame the sports. Cullesneo:a- letics, despite what may be done here ;lnd there: despite some criticisms | which. by the wav, should be directed against people and not the sports, should 80 on in their development, and college men will go on enthusiastically taking part in them.” "D i u;lklnxg specifically about his own school, “we are gettin, r- ganized and our tez el ad:h:r;hehx;esuu th what we have accomplished this year and I belleve that our psmn: | sports should give us our fair measure | of victories. We not only are develop- ing our intercollegiate p , but | our physical education work as well. We have more men at Virginia taking part in sports of one kind or another thl{l‘;\'er before. “Last Fall our foot ball team be | to show what it could do, when it m | North Carolina for the first time in years, and our basket ball and boxing teams during the Winter season were all that we could ask. To tell the truth, I am afraid sometimes that we are beginning to hit the high spots too v, because in such a case the he coaches get to be exceed- ingly difficult. I feel sure, though, that from now on, year in and year out, Virginia will get its full share of ath- letic field glory.” IN speaking of Spring sports, base ball d track, Driver :ays that Virginia should have good teams. “We have back practically the same diamond squad with which Coach Gus Tebell last year hung up the best record a Vir- ginia team has made in 40 years, and our track squad also should do well. We have a good track squad, but Iack a really capable sprinter. If we had this chap Widmyer of Maryland to run the 100 and 220 for us there wouldn't be any school that could touch us.” WOODMEN NINE TO DRILL. ‘Woodmen of the World base ballers hold their first drill this morning at 11 o'clock on the Rosedale diamond. OWN at Virginia,” said Driver, in Career Definitely Ended World champion found to have fractured both ankles and pelvis in auto mishap. HILADELPHIA, March 18 (P —Bill Carr—the Arkan- sas Flier—blazer of track trails never before reached, lay in a hospital bed tonight— through with collegiate track com- Ppetition. Practures of both ankles and the right pelvis bone, suffered in an automobile accident last night, brought an abrupt end to the col- lege athletic career of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania’s ace track- man. The smiling, modest, world record holding Olympic 400-meter cham- plon—a perfect running machine— ‘was hurled from the running board of an automobile, on which he was , when it collided with an- other car in suburban Bala. ‘Whether the injuries would force Arkansan to © Horrmen; Bl homuwon the black-thatched cancel his N foretold by his close friend, Lawson Robertson, veteran coach of Penn- sylvania and American Olympic teams. “If it were his ankles only, and not the pelvis, Bill's chances of run- ning again would be much better,” one hospital official said, recalling that once before m’l:‘nhuu shattered h jump for the high school in Pll:gnul. Ark., his home. injury, but Robertson slowly brought him around to championship form. Robertson had planned to use Carr in the on® mile relay race at the Pennsylvania relays next month and confine the rest of his running to the 100 and 20Q yard dashes in d\lll_ll.m and in the :iyesl. had been e: ted that Carr agein would meet Ben Eastman, the Pacific Coast crack runner, in the intercollegiates, but whatever chances there were for this have gone glimmering. Carr in his rush to the Olympic championship and a world's record of 46.2 in the 400 meters, defeated Eastman three times, On his return East Carr was feted by Pennsylvanians and was a guest at many functions. Only last week he received the award made annually at Pennsylvanis on the basis of character, scholastic stane and athletic ability. collegiate of lvan ‘The the brilliant Penn: m'umhu . l&m&lfih il last Sati 300-yard race