Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1934, Page 13

The °T~’nen1ng Star %pnfis WASHING GTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1934, Foot Ball Fatalities Continue to Show Decline From High Mark of 1931 CRIDGAMEFATAL 1026 THIS YEAR One College Player Dies of Injury—D. C. Boy Is Among Victims. BY FOSTER HAILEY, Associated Press Sports Writ EW YORK, December 4 —Foot ball fatalities continued to show a decline this year from the high mark of 1931, when the tragic death of Cadet Dick Sher- idan, West Point end, shocked the country and led to rule changes and | closer supervision by colleges and high schools over America’s national Fall sport. The fourth annual survey by the Associated Press, made in collabora- tion With Prof. Floyd R. Easterwood of New York University, and the Na- tional Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters, shows 26 deaths this Fall attributable to foot hall as com- pared to 50 in 1931, 38 in 1932 and 36 last year. They are segregated as follows: lege, 1; high school, 16; sandlot, 6, and club, 3. ‘The college death toll is a decrease from 8 in 1931, 2 in 1932 1933. High school fatalities increased from 14 three vears ago, 8 in 1932 and 11 last year; in 1931.°8 in 1932 and 5 in 1933, and club from 2 in 1931, 5 in 1932 and 2 in 1933. Tackling Kills Eight. LASSIFIED as to the type of play eight received fatal injuries in making tackles, one in blocking and four in be tackled. Informa- tion is lacking on the 2 For the first time since Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing intro- duced the game as a part of prison routine, a prisoner in a State institu- tion is listed among the fatalities, John Daviduke of the Connecticut State prison at Hartford. He died October 14 of a skull fracture received in a game at the prison with a club team from outside. He had served two years of a 4-6-year sentence for the theft of an automobile. Only 14 of the 26 received their in- | juries in actual games, six being hurt in practice and the other six in un- supervised pick-up matches on vacant Jots. One youngster, 12-year-old John | Speers of Arlington, Mass when a sharp root penetrated throat as he was tackled in a sandlot contest. College. T Troeliger. Lawrence, 2 lege, New Haven, Conn.; High School. Davis, Willard, 18, Leeds, Ala.; brain concussion. Dickerson, Charles, jr., Kans.; broken spine. Eddins, A.. 18, Pachuta, ternal injuries Hedstrom, Bert, jr. 17, 8. Dak.; brain concussion. Kraszewiski, Edward, 17, Roosevelt, Wyandotte, Mich.; broken neck. La Rocca. Vito (age ungiven), New Haven, Conn.; infection. Lemon, Charles. 16, Union, Phoenix, Ariz.; broken neck McGee, Paul (age ungiven), ton, Tex.; blood clot on brain. Mooney, Woodrow, 18, Waverley, Ala.; broken neck Morris, Jack, 16, Anadarko, brain concussion. Rhoades, ©Ohio: infection. Royer, Richard, 14, West \Iansfi(‘ld, Ohio; infection. . Donald, 17, Harbor, A.h(a- skull fracture. , Watkins, 18, Pell City, ies. List of Fatalities. HE list of dead with age. school and type of injury follows: Arnold Col- ken neck. 16, Hugoton, Miss.; in- Deadwood, Grove- Ala.. 7, Coplay, Pa.; inter- nal injuries. ‘Walker, Morris, 19, Rosewald »N’r‘gm) School, Staunton, Va.; internal in- juries, Sandlot. Ball, Robert, 13, Stratford, Conn.; injury to spine. Ponte, Francis, 16, Topeka, Kans.; internal injuries. McGettigan, William, 9, Darlington, Wis.; infection. Speers, John F., 12, Arlington. Mass.; severed artery. Tomassini, Robert, 16, Utica, N, Y.; broken neck Stansbury, Wesley, 23, Washington, D. C.; blood clot on brain, Club. Brown, William, 22 Y. A C.: broken neck. Daviduke. John, 24, Hartford, Conn., State Prison; skull fracture. Herder, Joseph, jr., 18, East Hemp- stead, Long Island; skull fracture. TIE AT BASKET BALL. Salamanca, N. Y. W. C. A. Business Girls and the | Garfield A. C. sextets fought to a| 25-25 tie last night, as play opened in the Washington Recreational Basket Ball League. The Camera Catches What the Eye Is' Too Slow to See Col- | and 2 in | sandlot deaths from 10 | Okla.; | Wilbur, 18, New Londnn,’ PORTS copE Fight Game Here Is Hit by Sherman-Hughes | Ring Fiasco. Y FRANCIS E. STAN. HE District Boxing Commission mufTed a great chance to invest i some gilt-edged fiasco-pre- vention insurance last night at the Riding and Hunt Club when Mor- ris Sherman of Detroit and Frankie Hughes of Wisconsin were permitted | | to waltz the full 10 rounds. My vocabulary doesn’t include the | | adjective properly to describe how | really bad the affair was. To say a scrap between Natie Brown and Red Barry, each wearing pillows on their hands. would have resembled a battle | of wil s by comparison may give some faint 1dea of the camembert scent produced by Messrs. Sherman and Hughes I doubt if ever before in Washing- | ton’s boxing history has a fight been so bad. The s booed and razzed sang and whistied the “Merry Widow ‘Waltz” in unisen, and goaded and pled for action. All of their efforts were futile. Finally they walked out when it became obvious that Sherman and Hughes were to be allowed to finish. And at the finish of a fight in which the hardest punch thrown on either side wouldn't | have punctured the spray of a i needle shower. Sherman and Hughes collected perhaps the | easiest money of their lives. Morrie was paid off on 20 per | cent of a 100 gate, and Frankie on 13! per cent. Spare the Rod. Etc. | HE fight was not in the bag. It T couldn’t have been what the box- | ing boys call “business” cause even the " day” bouts never w boys undoubtedly tried, was neither seemed to try Sherman, easily two. probab r u[ ught Hughes most pathetic excusc for a fighte ever had faced as he peck feebly at the Wisconsin wel and easily ducked the gatelike swin of Hughes. If Morrie di think he undoubtedly s ne. | But what I'm getting at is why it | was allowed to continue. It was obvi- |ous early in the fight that if any punching was to be done, then the fans would have to do it. Yet it was permitted to go on and on, and what is to prevent the spreading of the news all over the East that Washington is such a sucker town that a couple of guys can go into the ring, make a few fechie gestures, clinch and draw down a couple of hundred smackers? 50, | Fiasco Hurts Boxing. T ISN'T pleasant for a r I step in and throw a couple of called main eventers out of ring good mor But when the customers laid y on the line to see a fight I think the 1500 who gathered last night at the Hunt Club would have appreciated it and gained much con- | fidence in the Boxing Commission n’ the purses had been held up and suspensions slapped on botk rs That the affair hurt local boxing goes without s But Match- maker Goldie Ahearn should be thank- ful the house was as small as it was, \\l"lrn was, in itself, t i of Washingto T rux }Iuflhw. in three previous start in the Capital, never even remotely resembled a main-bout fighter, and Sherman, in his first and only previous appearance, turned up out of shape and performed accordingly. | And, if he hasn't done so al- | Ahearn might do well to 1 suggest, in a nice, gentle way, of course, that in the future Messrs, | | Sherman and Hughes peddle else- where what fistic wares they Possess. so- the Oliphant Greatest—Bergman. UTCH BERGMAN dipped his spoon in his plate of bean soup vesterday at the Army War Col- eon so graciously given for sports writers of Washington, | stirred up a bean, and immediately ‘ua= qr--rk with an Army thought. | “I see,” said Dutch, “that a couple | n{ all-time Army teams were chosen last Saturday and Elmer Oliphant was | on the second team. To me that| sounds funny. As long as I have been | playing. coaching and been around | foot ball players I never have seen | another player so great as Oliphant. ‘And I played for two years alongside | {of George Gipp and watched Jim Thorpe in action “Oliphant could do everything, and, | | it seemed to me, could do all better | | than anybody else. Moreover, he had plenty of confidence in himself, and that is what makes a great player great. A coach once told Elmer, in reply to a request by Oliphant himself, | | that Thorpe was the greatest player | the game had known, and that Oli- | phant was next. The difference was, | according to this coach, that Thorpe was just a little better kicker and passer. “Well, you know what Oli- phant did. according to the story? He hung a couple of bar- |System Cleverly Revised by £ THONAS TEACHES BAMA NEW AN Coach Who Learned Un- der Rockne. This is the third and last of a series of stories on Alabama’s foot ball team that will engage Stanford in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena New Year day. By the Associated Press. | NIVERSITY, Ala., December 4. —Four years ago a young man with an engaging smile and quiet manner came to the University of Alabama to assume the | foot ball coaching helm. The man, Frank Thomas, ing was mak- his bow as a head coach in big time foct ball and he was decidedly “on the spot.” Alabama’sCrim- son Tide was fresh from a spec- tacular season crowned by a de- cisive victory over the West in the Rose Bowl, and was regarded as “the team to beat” in Dixie foot ball. Under Wallace Wade, whom! Frank Thomas. Thomas succeed- ed. the Crimson Tide had become a feared opponent in the South and intersectionally, with a record of two wins and one tie in the Rose Bowl within six years. If the size of the tas him caused him any worry. none could tell it. In his quiet, winning way, he took over the helm, retaining the as- sistants that had a Wade. confronting Thomas Builds New Game. had >d a system at had proven | 1 v successful, and it was not the fast-breaking Notre Dame game that Thomas had learned under Knute Rockne. Henry (Hank) Crisp, line coach un- der Wade, had been made athletic director, and continued as line coach. | How well Thomas and Crisp work to- | gether is attested by the record of and one tle in the amed to build only four losses | four vears they have t e sharp disciplinarian, s the soft-spoken diplo- her they build winning | p click to- of the coach- ing Harold (Red) ed Thomas at Cha now coaches the ends: irry) Cain. a graduate of the cle at Alabama. who assists i s and coaches puniing and blocking. and J. B. Whitworth, also a Thomas protege, who aids with the line. Durinz a game Thomas sits on the bench like a statue. elbows resting on his eves giued to the field of play. Occasionally a substitute will sit beside h ting instructions, but from oper whistle until the half he rarely move 1 Cr nees, Trained Under Rockne. | HIS is the background of Ala-‘ bama’s latest Rose Bowl con- | tender. the team that will carry the foot ball prestige of the South and East into the Rose Bowl against Stanford's mighty Indians. Thomas learned foot by e Dame, where he was quarter- | back on the great teams Knute Rockne uilt in 1921 22 and 1923. hing assignment was at Georgia in 1923. and he went to Chattanooga as his ball at | head coach, where his teams won two £. I A. A. championships. He was the first Rockne pupil to win a title and is the first to lead a team to the Rose Bowl. Thomas was recalled to Georgia in 1929 when a former teammate at Notre Dame, Harry Mehre, was made head coach there On the resignation of Wallace Wade | at Alabama in 1930, Thomas accepted. College Basket Ball Northwestern, 48; Carleton, 33. Jameston (N. Dak.) College, Concordia (Moorhead), 37. 4 100-POUNDERS SEEK FOE. A game for Sunday is sought by the Kenilworth 100-pound foot ball team. | Call Lincoin 0334. rel staves between the goal posts, one high and the other low, and practiced passing unfil he could hit either one at any angle, and from a distance as far as he could throw. He wound up by being as great a passer as Thorpe and as great a kicker.” | Bevan, | George Svencsen and Jab Bevan is the | ,WALLOPS AND WALTZES. QUARLTS 3 THE EX-COLLEGIAN, STOLE THE SHOW LAST ANIGHT AT THE RIDING AND HUNT CLUB, AND Took A UNANIMOUS DECISION FRrom —By JIM BERRYMAN “THE CUSTOMERS WHO CoULD GET NEWSPAPERS STAYED THROUGH THE HUGHES- SHERMAN ILAS DID HIS USVAL TRICKS ON THE ROPES.... How’ THING LP IN TH'OLD MoToR CITY, MORRIE -~ OKE? NOT BAD" CowBoy - ‘ How's 1T ovT 2 WISCONSIN WAY ¢ t ?::v A'/ CALVIN CALP,,, ol ATTA BOoY CALVIN- . WE CAN TAKE ir! STKCK 'AT LEFT | OUT--- OH-OH! HAS THAT “MURDERER'S WHIP " BIGTENGRIDRU HURTS MINNESO Coliege Gan‘e Careers of Kostka, Other Players Probably Ended. By the Associated Press. HICAGO, December 4 —The college foot ball careers of five Minnesota stalwarts probably will be ended or shortened by the time the Western Conference Faculty Committee on Athletics finishes | its deliberations this week end. The question of eligibility of Stanis- laus Kostka, pile-driving fullback; Bill star guard; Art Clarkson, | most important item of business on the program of the faculty members. Coaches of all sports and athletic directors also will be in Chicago Friday | and Saturday for the annual Winter | meeting. during which schedules will be framed and other routine business looked after. | Under a Big Ten rule which says| | competition on freshman teams counts as a year of collegiate competition, Kostka and Bevan probably have played their lost foot ball for Minne- sota. Although they rank as juniors, both attended the University of Oregon and played on freshman teams. Kostka played a year cf varsity foot ball at Oregon and another at Minnesota, bility unless the freshman angle of the rule is amended. Bevan has played two years at Min- | nesota in addition to his yearling com- petmon at Oregon. Clarkson competed | as a freshman at Oregon and had one year on the Minnesota varsity, giving him one more year on Bernie Bier- man's eleven. Jay Bevan and Svend- sen are in the same boat as Kostka | and Bill Bevan. It is expected that the | Faculty Committee will reaffirm the freshman competition rule. TUTORS HEAR MACKERT | S | C. L. Mackert, head of the depart- | ment of physical education of theJ | University of Maryland, told of intra- | mural athletic work before the Dis- trict of Columbia Physical Education | Association, men’s division. last night | at the Central Y. M. C Tt was decided by the assoclatia to make every effort to correlat physical education work in the Dis-| trict. About 60 attended the meeting and many new members were admitted. Every foot ball fan has seen a drop-kick, but no one has known what actually happened in that fraction of a second when the booter's toe meets the pigskin. These high-speed electrical flash photographs, taken at an exposure speed of 1/00,000th of a second, by Prof. Harold E. Edger- ton of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reveal for the first time what the eye has never seen. The kicker, Wesley E. Fesler, former all-America star at Ohio State University and now kicking and end coach at Harvard, used a " ball inflated to the playing pressure of approximately 13 pounds to the square inch. Measurements show that the boot penetrated at least half the diameter of the ball. At the left we see the kicker's shoe just as it came into contact with the ball, clearly showing how his boot penetrated the pigskin. In the center the ball has regained its normal shape and is tilting back as it begins to rise. Note the dust halo, all motion stopped, Just ahead of the pigskin. At the right the ball is shown on its way, the nose lifting as it starts on its flight, —Wide World Photo. THE MAIN BouT WAS A Good OLD FASHIONED “SOCIABLE -~ WELSH TOPS LIST FOR MUNY TENNIS Mitchell and M’Elvenney Place Fifth and Sixth in National Rating. | By the Associated Press T. LOUIS, December 4 —Bernard Welsh of Washington, D. C., national public parks tennis champion, ranked first in the ational Public Parks Tennis Associ- | ation men’s single ratings announced today. Welsh, a former captain of Duke Universi nis team, won the public parks title a t Minneapolis | August, de- | feating Arnold Simons of Louis- ville, the 1933 champion. Sim- | ons was ranked | second. Mrs. Ruth Bail- ey Prosser, St. Louis, was first in the women's sin- Charles s and Willlam Schommer. | Minneapolis, in the men's doubles and Mrs. Helen Rose and Mrs. Andree Russell, Cleveland, in the women's doubles. ‘The list will be submitted for ap- proval to the U. 8. L. T. A at its | meeting at Cincinnati in February. The rankings follow in order: Men's singles—Welsh, Simons, Ted Barney Welsh, Sports Events In Local Realm THURSDAY. Wrestling. Auditorium—Main Duseck. Omaha, vs. Vic Christy, California, heavy- weights; two falls o Three other exhibitions. starts 8:30. Show FRIDAY. Basket Ball. Mount Rainier High, at St TULANE, TEMPLE SUGAR BOWL FOES | Inaugurate Grid Fixture on New Orleans Field New Year Day. By the Associated Press. EW ORLEANS, December 4.— New Year day will usher in another foot ball classic when Tulane and Temple meet here in the inaugural Sugar Bowl clash. | The two were chosen for the battle yesterday by the Midwinted Sports | Association, which is arranging for the game. Both accepted. | Temple, coached by Glenn (Pop) Warner, is the only unbeaten team in the East, but its record is marred by two ties, one 7-7 with Indiana and the other 0-0 with Bucknell. Tulane, co-champion of the South- | ! rounding out his three years of eligi- | eastern Conference with Alabama, has lost only to Colgate, 20 to 6. Tulane drew the nomination as the “host” or Southern team in the Sugar | Bowl after its thrilling 13-12 victory | over Huey Long's undefeated Louisi- | ana State eleven in Baton Rouge Saturday. Tulane has won nine games, de-‘ feating Chattanooga, 41-10; Auburn, 13-0; Florida, 28-12; Georgia, 7-6; | Georgia Tech, 20-12; Mississippi, 15-0 | Kentucky, 20-7; Sewanee, 32-0, and | L. S. U, 13-12. | Temple ploughed through to seven | | victories over V. P. I, 34-0; Texas A.| and M., 40-6: West Virginia, 28-1 Marquette, 28-6; Holy Cross, 14-0; Czamegie Tech, 34-6, and Villanova, -0. The Mid-Winter Sports Association has guaranteed the “visiting” team $15,000, while Tulane, or the “host” team, will receive a $12,000 guanntee ALL-STARS TO START GRID DRILLS TONIGHT Pixlee to Put In Backfield That, Will Cause Alabama Real Worry. : RACTICE for the District all-star | eleven that will face the Ala-| bama All-Stars Saturday after- noon in Griffith Stadium in the Al- mas Temple benefit game starts to- night at_7:30 o'clock under the arc lights. Drills will continue tomor- row and Thursday nights and a final polishing work-out will be held l'fl-l day afternoon. The invaders from Dixie will arrive here Thursday morning and will hold a public drill that afternoon at Grif- fith Stadium, but on Friday will drill behind barred gates. Jim Pixlee, George Washington coach, who is drilling the Washing- ton combination, figures to put a backfield on the fleld that will cause the 'Bama bunch plenty opposition. Johnny Fenlon, Colonial product; Tom Whelan, former Catholic Uni- versity star, and Jimmy Dunn, who starred on ‘the grid for Western Maryland, are backs upon whom Pix- lee is counting heavily. Sale of tickets for the game, $1.10, continues brisk. They may be had at | December John’s, 3:30. SATURDAY. Foot Ball. Alabama All-Stars vs. District of Columbia All-Stars. Griffith Sta- dium, 2. Almas Temple benefit game. PEARCE TO WED. Hardy Lee Pearce, Eastern HlGh‘ | School coach, and former George Washmgton athlete, is to be married 27 to Marion Elizabeth | Fick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F‘:ed-’ erick Allan Fick of this city. Pearce came here from Anson, Tex. | Basket Ball. Wilson Teachers at Lynchburg College. New Shoe Szji/e | Drewes, St. Louis; Jess Millmann, Los | Angeles; Dennison Mitchell. Wash ington, D. 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