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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1028, | EASTERN PLAYERS DOMINATE ALL-AMERICAN HOPPE AND COCHRANE TO MEET FO " clan estatssrsianeseomniamniaamneneaner eee — sem ANN AGAR ontonsnys Deen eas ™ Re eins, yi 9 ecg eeemremmmngement enema mars Reckeleaauniensiedimenctetett ’ i } THE JATTLE STAR R THE Poll Taken of Gridiron ExpertsThroughout U.S, McRae, Hilstead, Bedenk, Garbisch, Pfann, Wilson and Grange Unanimous Choices of Experts; Bryan of Washington on Second Team | Tanne 2 poll of football authorities thruout the coun- try, The Star has obtained the opinions of leadi gridiron experts in each section of the country as to All- American selection. The teams named here are the result of combined vote of six Eastern sporting editors, thr Middle West writers, two from the South and several from the Pacific Coast. | There is a wider range of territory to eover this year and the grade of football is said to be better thruout the country as a whole than it has been for years, The men on the first eleven, with the exception of one guard, are almost universally picked thruout the country as the best available. McRae, Syracuse, end, ls conceded to be the best man in his position in the game today. The same goes) for Milstead, the giant Yale tackle. Bedenk, Penn State guard, is {na class by himself, while Garbisch, the Army center, is long experiencefl in that position, j Pfann, the Cornell fed wren is All-American Grid Elevens FIRST TBAM d-—-MecRae, Syracuse, kle—Sundstrom, Cornel, uard—Bedenk, Penn State. nter—Garbisch, Army Guard—MeMilan, Iitnota, Tackle—Milstead Ead—Berry, Lata Quarter-—-Pfann, © Hatt—Grange, Titinols, pnts ailt—Wilson, Penn State. = ‘ Pullback--MeDride, Byracuse, | Grange, the Illinois flame, r the jbest back in the Big Ten conferpnee. SECOND TRAM | Wilson, the Penn State marvbl, is Murphy, Notre Dame, |one of the outstanding players af the Aeschenback, Dartmouth. year, Hubbard, Harvard. Blott, Michigan. | ‘The fullback berth ts one of jclose Bryan, Washington, jcompetition, but McBride, the louse triple threat man, receive one of the great backfield men all Ead Tack Guard Beam, California. man, Yale, ck—Richéson, Yate. |and two of the three from the 3 West, so he must have the goofs. | Notre Dame, with its wonflerful eloven, with tho exception of Miller, flashy halfback, didn’ an outstanding star to place mythical first team, Miller Grange and Wilson. j ebraska, West Virginia! and Workiwan, Obl State || Tex", three great teams, alsg falled Dalifornia |to place. . Columbia, | Bryan, Nichols and Beam of Coast hiptiinse lgon at {teams were honored on the jsecond and third squads, ck—Wyeotf, Georgia Tech. THIRD TEAM have in the wa to Tackle—Renne End—Watte, Quarterback. ALL-AMERICAN TEAM PLAYS AMERICAN LEAGUE BALL NOW AKI back of the «1 about All-American ams, versity of Alabama, one st players the Syuth has 4 out stop Gagnon.of W Outt! BIN" Darrety] 1 in forp fox have f Pitcher of the greatijat backs ed in Vfext. He . Notre Damo fand won aliers on its roster.| much praise from Coach ftockne. . Who plays shortstop,| First Baseman Lou Gelirig of the halfback at Lafayette.| Yankees was a featured player at elder Hinkie Haines was a ren-|Columbia and Bob Kndie of the sation ‘on with Penn} Cleveland Indians played at Michi State. Outfielder Hendricks is a for-| gan. mer Vanderbilt star. | Experts who are reallyflooking for gs Stephenson, who second-}an All-American footba/{ team can sucks for Cleveland, was a star half. recruit it from Ban Johspon's league. CANADIAN BOATISHOLDER __ OF LONG DISTANCE RECORD EW YORK, Dec. 6.—While this Americans realize it, C the 24 holds the long dist was 44 1,3.M. P. H. and hampionship of Rainbow 111 toddy holds all world’s The boat ig Rainbow JI. Her own.|‘istance power boat records from et is Har . Greening, of Hamil.) 150 to 1,064 miles t. ‘The record is 1,064 miks| Harry B. Greening has announced ours, It was established on|that he would attend the National measured course, un-| Motor Boat show, to be held in apervision of recognized |this city, January 4th to 12th. and , on Lake Rosseau, Ont.,| that types of bis world record boat ber 20. | would be on exhibition. that ever floated on the| American boating fans excluding the famous |*arm into New |wonder boat of the age. the Mauretania, | "00 * ee A also that the new world champion One thousand 22 hours, 42) phington of the Sox ball at Holy Cross. The White Castner one Fr prod. starred aying the out the Boston Ame was t the Univer the The New York Yankees } at on the few | hours’ record. run, have equalled ada to- Tho average for nee power the world. will not miles was cov minutes and Few autos 4 in second: cross-country, Jas. G. Vincent, of Mr. Vincent the Detroit now held by Col Detroit, and which must defend again on river next September. in “ SECTIONAL UPSETS So far this season each the country has had its foot! \DEMPSEY HAS ea Seva syed) FAST WORKOUT Mo ah oth en the wout| CHICAGO, Dec. &—Jack Demp: Tee oe tn data |sey donned fighting togs for the first time since his bout with Luis Firpo, and went thru a fast work. 1 a local gymnasium. Demp. h gaspe. and was willing to meet Fir fro contender BARRETT WINS OVER DONNELLY PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 6.—Bobby Barrett, Philadelphia lightweigh: stopped Johnny Donnelly, Union- town, F in the fifth round. It was the first decision fight held here under the new 1 Christmas | Specials | Suits and Overcoats Tailored for out < You for as and has d up in the big football games present season. A Low as umbled ball, a bad kick or a poo $45.00 ’ BREAKS IN FOOTBALL n two evenly matched teams in line of sport, the of the game invariably de- ‘This fact is proved ar in the world series wh me any breaks cide the issue he of judgment has decided th {ter the two teams other to a stand tie game seemed LIKES RED 80X ker, star pitcher of the ns, insists he will that team next year. 5 muspended bec t ° hin East | er ued an edict © would like to Lee Fohl ase STONE WINS Raby Tuiloring Co. 1313 Fourth Avenue ‘Thousands | York to see this} will be interested to know | | will issue a challenge at the boat | |show for the America's gold cup, | aid he was “itching” for more | t or Harry Wills, fe on the|a West Offers Lidberg of Minnesota As Rival for Mallory of Yale INNEAPOLIS, Deo. 5,— When ho hits ‘em they stop dead, ‘That's a saying in this part of the U, 8, as applied to a footballer when tackled by Carl Lidbers, Minnesota's greatest defensive back wince the days of the furfamed Lorin Solon, Lidberg in one of the most power. ful backs playing football, Ho is so | rugged that he can stand the great- jest gruelling without displaying any} traces of injury. Lidbeps is Minnesota's newest wonder back, He haw ripped and torn all lines that have faced the Gophers thia year, He is nearly al- Ways good for two or three yards, With Lidberg to rip into the line, | Martineau for off-tackle and offend | runs and Malcolm Graham, the new | quarterback sensation, for long runs off the ends, the Gopher back- field 1s one of tho best that hos represented the Maroon and Gold in years, | Lidberg is of Swedish descent, He Was born and ratsed at Red Win | Minn, a little picturesque village nestling among the Mississipy! river | |bluffs a short distance from the Twin Cities. | Tddborg starred in high school in | football, basketball and baseball, | making three letters in the gridiron fame, four in basketball and three | in baneball, He then entered Hamline untver: | sity, where he starred on the foot. | hall team, was even greater in bas- | kethall and played outfield on the} baseball team. A year ago he entered Minnesota | and therefore was not eligible for | {the varsity He has starred in every gridiron {same in which he has played this iy r, his defense work being es. pecially brilliant Lidberg should be a star on the basketball team as in his high school days he was ranked os a better basketballer than gridironer, | | Yep, You Need More Thana BY JOE WILLIAMS | YVHEN Benny Leonard first ap- | peared on the adene the fight jexperta shook their noodles in kage} Leon as y Jand serious diskpproval ¢ champion | “That bird’lt never do,” they sald, he elustve | “Ho can’t hit.” ir 6 rounds—tt } Several years ago another light-|who would r |welght came up from nowhere, as is |t the custom of so-called ring sense | tons: boy's name was Willis PUNCH! phitter with hia right hand perts, duly hailed him as & comin; Jenta, ix down and hese importance attraction has imprensed, mpion, ch comple nu know, came on| ¥2 ip by knock: | “tdi | Welt same Leonard You need more th + Xou needa certain A mental balance And, finally, the Jackson had the the p will to ch, and little ‘s thru now. night ause he couldn't ; at’ Why nay Leonard in x h Jackson led the 1 have been in fellow, whose by the way, is Oscar was thé first and onty to knoc ple d he was a remarkable’ p whore tion's < Z name Ho ter ever Dur the first /WRESTLING TURNOUT IS POOR AT THE UNIVERSITY S IMETHING will have to be done; place in the 175 pound class ws Slag poh an Seka : bir Fred Griffin. service, last hundred at the first ing {s poor, Johnny n ho was etch wop he did it with a, reg dramatic ee 145 pounder, looks to inion, He ts show In the}! er class. Paup and Ray pound aspira for their Last year “The first turnout was not a fail: | tight lure,” says Manager Percy Shepard. | sauad We were far from pleased, how-| Roy ry is ever. Arbuthnot expects to see a|125-pound class hundred men at work before the|his third | week Is out.” | tion. Altho there was no! | New men |material present, 4 and looking Ing out il over. that there classy wrestlers turning’ out for} Tho fight places this year. Robin Reed, the | will Oregon Aggie terror, may find some |Ted 1 competition this year, He will not| year, be able to take the whole Husky mat | worker team and pin their shoulders to the mats aa he did last year. | Captain Paul Davis, heavyweight was on hand and did a few stunts for the railbirds. Davis is in fine shape for early seasoM and should give all comera a run for thel eckels, Earl |Strand {sa ikely contender for Davis’ | make Jackson out indeed. ed @ merry the Ber of ¥ goods in the is back for competi. d the famou: y on the b kson must feel the tragedy n the keenly compares himself with the m he knocked kicking. world's feather- n of great whose name on be forgotte yet to win a title 1 of Philadel up to f few. But t ot stl are some , are There | in. the be divided, nk and Al Flowe downtown di. t time I Jackson in ge Chaney was training champlonship good ia Kilbane. Jackson rie wa kid, but even then he fie hitter aney's {All-Nature Team Has |’: Ideai Training Camp | ae ALLNATURE ELEVEN ¥ Lafayette « .End on pin ee | Mous Western Reserve. Tackle a | Root Baldwin-Wallace . } Appel . . . Oberlin . BIG TILT FOR Bois eek PHILADELPHIA | Hav isco tenes ose PHILADELPHIA, D i } ! honor pounder 1 petitor fo: ar is a Chaney on to rder t ound mig m manager | particularly | ame eight champion and bet guys were he Berry... pineeraey ve Center « Guard Tackle End Frank Groves . 5. Maryland . . . . Qua lin field has t ure Pond... Yale ition foe: Wie Stump. s vy Akront Univerity ny-Na Halfback Army-Na | Wood. , » .West Point. . , .Fullback - ai Ba football lvania ame, ad n universt . y official to name COCHRAN IS GOING GOOD FRANCISCO, De Wel | the earnest offer our | All-Natur we The as they advantage of ide romping over tired it would be possible name a better combi Budd forth win; al training conditions, tiie Hill or ap the amplon WI uKC Pp, looks fit te le Hoppe on the t after exhibit | th meandering of the it down by one an table Root r kK D and er h M a pa Ww find than on Appell or a nofter spot some down WORLD'S |Anti-Transfer Rule Is | Enforced by Big Three ‘Harvard, Yale and Princeton Will Not Use Football| | Players Who Have Previously Competed for Some | Other College Team—Other Schools Follow Suit | BY HENRY L. FARRELL } EW YORK, Dec. 5.—Starting next fall and remaining : effective as long as the signed agreement endures, Yale, | Harvard and Princeton will not be permitted to make use of | “transfers” on their ‘varsity football teams. | “Transfers”. are students who come to one college from | another and, as applied to athletics, the term means players who have engaged in athletics for another college. Prepara-|' | tory schools, of course, are excepted. : | his policy was adopted by the “Big Three” in furtherance | of the desire to remove collegiate football from the sah tions of having inducements made, directly or indirectly, to cause the trahsfer of good athletes from smaller to larger colleges, ‘ Two of Yale’s finest players on the 1928 eleven—Riche- son, quarterback, and Milstead, tackle—were transfers, but junless the agreement made was retroactive, any transferred j athletes at Yale, Harvard or Princeton this year will not be | made ineligible. | LeGendre, the fine Princeton back, was also a transfer, as | he played with Richeson on the Tulane University team. doubt there were several Peet Queen Golfer other good players on the three teams who would not) |have been permitted to play | if the rule had been passed before it was. | In providing so many safeguards | to remove collegiate football from any taint of professionalism or any | } motives unethical from a pure ama teur viewpoint, college athletic heads have been accused of taking their} | football too usly. When the warning has been sound- jed and the cry is raised at the end lof each season that football must be the neutrals from the sic lines prompted to inquire: | | "Saved from what?” EVILS CREEP INTQ SPORT * PAGE 17 | Chicago to Stage Big Cur Match Cochrane Defeated Hop- pe in League Play, but Lost to German Star Ie Willie Hoppe to be dethroned again ¥ The billiard champion is ta mi er Cochran in @ play-off for the 18.2 balk line cham nmship at Chicago, December 1% 8 and 19. 4 hampionship proper, with all the leading cue wizards @ the country competing, Hoppe and © Cochran finished in a tle for the top. mort laurels, Hoppe has held the title continu.” ously since 1912 with the exception linquished the throne to Young Jake Schaefer, . n 1s probably the most dan- serous aspirant to Hoppe's crown at present. His record is noteworthy, ompiled the 18.2 record 484, In the recent tournament he trimmed both Hoppe and Schae- fer. With an average of 21% he de: feated Hoppe, 500 to 230. Against” I run of 384, | Schaefer he averaged 62% and seo 500, while the champion of 1921 collecting 54, H The thing that kept Cochran fro winning the title outright was Bie. unexpected defeat at the cue of Hae genlacher. This match was played in the afternoon following Cochran's: win over Hoppe. the night before, Cochran said he was so worked Up’ over his defeat of Hoppe that sleep | would not come to him and Hagenlacher he was unusually ner Theta Delts axnens, however, has allowed | cep up from behind, armed with a big sock in other sports, and perhape it is well that those who want to keep football as one of the few reproach should act on the that it is better to apply unce of prevention | f= k the pound of cure. » | is sound to bar amping “around lege and practl- approved by many had some strenu ing with “transfers.” ] Car evils to | | above the sports EDITH CUMMINGS Queen of America’s golfers, Edith Cummings of Chicago, will cross the Atlantic immediately after the holl- ays to begin preparations for an k on the British women’s golf championship. Miss Cummings won the American title this year for the first time at Rye, N. Y., defeating Alexa Stirling in the finals, She competed in the British event last year and made a creditable show- ing. Tilden Is caer tie couse tad cocoed 6] EMCEE Ut witha tirreort sgt is T hreat| Three star players, will b who hav had he qualified for the r on the Yale line, in wh ‘Tr i teachers of any line of athletics ¥ they much prefer to a green product and fashion it along their own lines than | Ito take a finished product from an-| it down and} aie other p tear | make! it over One of the best te this fal mor stars ' for Honors Pies DELTA CHI and Delta Universit at the campus gym Friday evening” at 8 o'clock. These two teams won the right te play for the title by winning the semi-final contest last evening. The Theta Delts conquered Lamb — da Chi Alpha, last year’s champs, by. jan 18 to 8 score, while the “Dekes'™ trounced Theta Xi, 43 to 19, in the | other. game, the losers tried hard to break” up the classy passing game of th winners, but without avail. The last: | year's champs were content to play |@ defensive game thruout. Arnold Cobley and Russ McKechnie starred for the winners. G Armand Marion was the star for the “‘Dekes” in the other game. He. scored 19 of his teams 43 points. George Anderson also played well for the winners. Zs Both games were cleanly playeds Bobby Morris dished up his usual — another college en stars on a star| AJEW YORK,’ Dec, 5.—Bill felt that they were than their new this college fr where they had b 1 they m Ti. | den’s threat to withdraw from team. jfurther competition for the Davis nouncement that he | his fight 8 of the American | annual meeting of | m. nin attitude was|CuP and his « and fac: | quarter: |the secret p insisted | ofticiais to th If when | e natural! by the ¢ broke of the upon carrying the intends to Inst on transfer eases the Lawn Tennis association is the | ,| there was n chance to score a touch- | |down, or in giving {t to one of the|termination of passive resistance | backs who had transferred with him, | that the champion had held against | Only when the team was adve the association for more than ing in midfield would he use one of | ye the “old backs” and one of the fin-} est Wayers in the East. Open mu-| group of prominent players tiny resulted and the team was de-| have maintained that the moralized. One big game was lost/tion was too dominating too to a team that was not two touch-|autocratic in its jurisdiction over downs as good. the players, The champion main- | Then the coaches took a hand, re-|tained that the association exceed | moved the quarterback and, in the/ed its a in trying to tell} next ga one of the most impor-| the play they could and tant ¢ schedule, the reorganized |could not do with their time and and factionless team defeated a team|in entering seemed sure to finish as the/ tournaments of the East [desire to play Rr a Tilden has been the leader of a who associa. | and m promiscuously in { where they had no| n obviously is sincere in his | at that he will not play with | Davis cup team in the future | , American comprises in its of | policy of recy in making the] Jappointments for the team and ap- | pointing combinations, Ther nce, } one of | Tilden permitted s of the | draw gravating experi-| The transfers, and it is appar- | Position t nt from the personne! of this year's | public upport the associa fine t that t aches prefer to | te reument that is miko their ¢ yers. Practically | obviously 1 Hof the 7 son this year's Tilden, of course, former West Virginia high|than the sport, but he rs, and perhaps the team |be treated like a boy novice etually represe he h more for the game n any other ut tennis all the associations tr wi "His case has much place cle "ith that of Charley nsferred playérs, rainst the A. A. U. administration of Knute | dock sought the right of Notre Dame team has| dividual freedom the A. A, U om) of strict Notre |tempted to discipline him and of practi d to deviare him a profes the nt been ann anti-transfer rule unced as being in fe the princ applied football big colle is being at sev institu that with. | owever, will is very sure in his | knows that the am 80 not bigger to and of in team | is too bi comes closer to # an its own name th sity in. the ¥ in common Paddock Because Pad a little in Any obst the w under Rockni t onl Dame affiliatior cally r 0 but on threaten sional . OFFICIALS SILENT NEW YORK Officials the United States Lawn Tennis asso: ciation refused to comment on t of Bill ational nd Davis cup star, t play in the future the oe that first quality | nd that Rockne on the geal the college spirit 1 Dec nd his first. c¢ the atemant champion that Da NOT A CHANCE en Me that neithe uid ne ht n Dublin 4 Tigue matches if LESOK up an Irish re Navy Pleased With Selection of U.-W. {NAPOLIS, Dec. 5,—Pleasure $s been shown over the the Navy eleven in the New Year’s game Pasader The vy and Washington crews shared the same boathouse at Poughkeepsie for two year: election of the University of Washington team to meet two institutions became very friendly when the me fight it ou ation and ting jot the brand of high class refereeing, ILLINOIS TO. PLAY MIDDIES APOLIS, Dec. 5.—Illinois, ane leaders of the Western con: _ ference, is considered sure to be on the Navy 1924 football schedule, as the navy officials have consented. to play at Illinois in 1925. Negotias tions will be opened next Sear for a game with Michigan, as there is no room on the Michigan 1924 sched: ule, A AD SANTEL Is MAT WINNER FRANCISCO, Dec. 5—Ad Santel won in two. straight falls from Bull Osman, of Texas, last night, after they had tangled on the mat for one hour and 25 min: utes. SAN ‘OUR EF XAMINED) 1 examine the eyes, write the| Prescriptions, deign, make the! Glasses when needed, to com= serve and restore eyesight, ples Bank Bldi. 2nd and Pike, Main 255i, Ask About Our $5.00 Glasses, British Clubs Dance Thursday Night Christensen's Broadway Hall A cordial welcome for all whe xood music, good dancing, ellows Warren Anderson Orchestra They Say Tinney Gives Furniture Away With a Smile! 1609 8th Ave. ner Pine BREMERTON—CHARLESTON [J —PORT ORCHARD Take Pust Steamers ut Colman Doek AR SCHEDULE Dally 10:30, REC Leave Seattle 15, #9300 and Sunday, 11:20 urday and dally m.. 9:00 om urday and Suns of a brief lapse in 1921, when he ree | Meet Dekes : In the Theta Delta-Lambda Chi GRID_ SELECTIONS BILLIARD TITLE |) Kappa Epsilon will meet for the basketball championship |}

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