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Vanderbilt Gridrnen Adopt Unusual Methods : Eastern Covets Scholastic Title
LETTER MEN ARE TO SEE
THAT RULES ARE OBSERVED
Volunteer to Prevent Violations of Regulations,
Swearing and Crabbing—Washington and Lee
Athletic Direc»or Lauds Rauber.
BY H. C. BYRD.
VAN’DERRI’I LT UNIVERSITY has adopted a novel method of keep
ing its foot ball squad in good physical trim, having put the mat
ter up entirely as a proposition for the playcrs'themselves to solve.
The squad has worked out its own tra'ning program..in consultation
the coaches, and the letter men then voluntarily took it upon themselves
to see that the program was carried out. The coaches, therefore, are not
hereafter to he burdened with seeing that their men adhere to training
rules.
In a letter to the writer Dan Mi
one of the finest fellows personally
speaks in a well satisfied way about
Says McGurui: “A tu>v<-1 and pleas
ing feature exists with us this year
in that the letter men voluntarily
held a conference with the coacher
and discussed the matter of regula
tions to tie observed by men in train
ing. and then privately decided to
take upon themselves the enforce
ment of file Utter and spirt of these
regulations. They have even added
certain featmes not stressed by the
coaches, and are making clear that
any default will be handled by them,
in addition to the training regula
tions. the men decided to eliminate
carelessness in being prompt at prac
tice and also to eliminate any kind of
crabbing or swearing among them
selves during practice or in games.”
McGugin said several other things
in ids letter, but as far as commit
ting himself as to an opinion of what
may be expected of Vanderbilt this
Kail he was entirely silent. While
Ills Southern games are just as inter
esting to him as ever. McGugin. while
he did not say so. evidently is look
ing forward to the. contest with Min
nesota at Minneapolis the Saturday
before Thanksgiving.
McGugin is a former Western Con
ference player, having graduated
from Michigan, and any game his
team plays with a Big Ten institu
tion. naturally, is important to him.
more so perhaps than some of the
Southern Conference contests.
McGugin believes, as do many oth
ers. that Southern foot ball is getting
better and better, and that it is only
a question of a few years before
Southern elevens will be meeting
Northern and Eastern schools on
even terms.
In Komar nnd Wakefield, ends and
Beeves, halfback. Vanderbilt prob
ably has three of the best players in*
the South. Botnar'was picked as a 11-
America player a year ago. and many
are of the opinion that Wakefield is
just as capable a player. Reeves, ac
eording to a .statement made to the
writer by a man close to Vanderbilt
athletics, is the best ground-gaining
back in the South today. In addition
to these three men. McGugin has back
for his team six other regulars, only
two men from the great eleven of
1923 having been lost.
Dick Smith in charge of athletics at
Washington and Gee University, was
here Saturday and Sunday scouting
lh- University of Maryland eleven, to
take hack knowledge of the Maryland
ers to leach I lie Generals. While here
he expressed himself mush as does
.McGugin in feeling that Southern foot
ball is on the upgrade.
“Southern fool ball, in my opinion,
will enjoy its greatest season.” said
Smith. “Especially is this true from
the. standpoint of clean athletics and
general sportsmanship. Never before
have Southern schools been in such
clqse relationships.
"That little suspicion of the other
fellow seems to have gone and noth
ing but optimism seems to prevail
everywhere. Teams generally are
stronger and the game itself from a
technical viewpoint is far better than ;
it was even three years ago. This
is true of the'small colleges of 200 |
students as of the universities with j
more than a thousand."
I.ih-iil foot hull squads got little op
portunity yesterday to practice. !
Weather conditions were such that ;
coaches did not care to take what i
might prove long chances of injuring ;
players. All squads spent a big part
of the afternoon listening to lectures i
on tile defects of Saturday s play.
In addition to talking about South
ern foot ball. Smith had a good word
lo say about Ty Rauber, former Cen
tral iligli fullback now playing half
back for the Generals. “Rauber is
one of our best backs, ha\ devel
oped rapidly since he was a member
of the freshman eleven a year ago.
He is doing the punting, weighs ever
173 pounds, and is consistently good."
NEBRASKA GRIDMEN
FACE ROUGH GOING
lit WALTER CAMP.
NEW YORK. September 30.—Uni- j
versity of Nebraska is in for a ses- |
sion of terrific foot ball struggles
this y*ar. for every team in the Mis
souri Valley conference has got the
idea that Nebraska can be beaten.
The thought of possible victory
o\er Nebraska gained great headway j
last Fall, when Kansas held the Corn
buskers to a 0-0 tie and Missouri
held them to a 7-7 score. These teams
will be especially at Nebraska's
throat this year. >
Down in the southwest conference,
in Texas, the Southern Methodists
are going to be threatened in spite of
their victory last year. University
of Texas, which finished second last
season. Is out for a place ot tlie top.
The Rocky Mountain conference,
championship of which wes won last
season by University of Colorado, has
10 teams, ail presumably in the run
ning.
—• t
WOULD PLAY HERE.
Jusiness Manager W. C. Hershberg
ei of the Frederick Athletic Club of
M try land is' seeking games with
lo :at elevens averaging ISO pounds.
>1 can be telephoned at Frederick
33 )-J.
•—
POLO GAME POSTPONED.
NEW YORK. September 30.—The
p< lo game today at Meadowbrook
b< :ween the Orange County and Hur
rii ane teams for the Monte Water
bi ry cup was postponed on account
of rain.
BAUM IS AFTER TURNER.
< barley Baum, Baltimore boxer, is
■wftling to meet Jack Turner again,
according to Sam Harris, the former's
manager. Prince Georges County
constables stopped the lust Bauru-
Turner mill.
BARRACKS BOUTS DELATED.
Boxing at the Washington Barracks
has been postponed tonight Until
Friday night, owing to the inclement
a MifeM,
SPORTS.
:Gugin. head coach at Vanderbilt and
associated with foot ball anywhere,
the action of the Vanderbilt pjayers.
I ALL-AMERICAN
Foot Ball
I
INTO THAT LINE
j BV gctting- a
QUICK START.
A; PONT VWMt FOR
ball- run into it
tear.
MU AVTAT
lloxc can a back field man learn to de
liver his full pozeer in smashing line
pi a vs f
Answered by
BILL ROPER
Conch of foot lull). Princeton I ni
vfinitj. In 1H22 his undefeated team
nas victor over talc. Harvard and
Chicago.
** * *
By determination and concentra
tion. A good backfield man should
make up his mind never to be
thrown for a loss and to always get
an extra yard. Run every play as
if it was the last and only play
the day. One of the main points
to remember is to get off with the :
ball., A quick start is everything.
The back must run at the line at
top speed with every ounce of drive
and power he has. His own line
man will soon learn to drive ahead
more quickly when his signal is
called. Their tear of being run over
will insure a better hole.
HAS ERRONEOUS IDEA
ABOUT NOTRE DAME,
BY LAWRENCE PERKY.
NEW YORK. September 30.—1 t
would seem that the authorities of
Boyola University in New Orleans
have an erroneous idea as to just
what the functions of the Notre Dame j
foot ball eleven are.
The South Bend team will be in
Atlanta playing Georgia Tech and
President D Antoni of I.oyola has j
asked the Notre Dame authorities to
“make a two-week trip of it and to
drop into New Orleans, where they '
can remain a week” and then play
the team of the young New Orleans'
institution on the Saturday following.
The money consideration is a ten
thousand-dollar guarantee and ex- j
penses, a matter, it is estimated, of
about two thousand dollars.
It will perhaps be brought to the
attention of the Loyola promoters
that foot ball is not the main inter
est of Notre Dame University and
that, strange as it may seem, the
young gladiators are seriously, more
or less, in pursuit of an education.
At any rate, the president of Loyola
seems to be under a misapprehension
concerning this Atlanta journey of
the South Benders.
They will not sojourn for a week
or so in Atlanta before repairing to
Grand Field to meet the Yellow Jack
ets. and once this game is played they
will have to hurry hack to their col
lege to attend classes the following
.Monday.
The intfmation is that if SIO,OOO
and expenses are not enough to in
terest Notre Dame, the ante will be
raised. Somehow, one suspects that
the Louisiana ns have got Notre Dame
•onfused with the Canton Bulldogs
or some other pro eleven.
RECORD CREW SQUAD
TURNS OUT AT YALE
NEW HAVEN, Conn., September 30.
—The first call for the varsity and
freshmen crew candidates at Yale
University brought 330 men. the
largest squad reporting on the open
ing day in the history of the college.
It is believed that the success of
the Yale crew at the'Olympics last
Summer has done much to make row
ing more popular at the university.
Three members of the Olympic
.crew, Wilson. Kingsbury and Spock
are in the tentative varsity crew
picked by Coach Edward Leader.
Ahighetand
comfortable
_ SEMI-SOFT
/lir COLLAR
C WL -»for. *
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IN THE NEW -
THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. 0.. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 30, 1924.
Golf Today Is Rated as the Most Popular of American Sports
Links Game, Still in Its Infancy, Has Far Outstripped Prize Fighting, Horse Racing and Base Ball in
Appeal to the Masses . s
BY CHESTER HORTON.
WITH this year’s tens of
thousands of new enthu
siasts for golf the pastime
>f the links has now fulfilled the
prediction ventured for it some time
ago. it having become obvious that
golf is today the most popular of
American sports.
Twenty-three years ago. when I
was the professional at the Evanston
Country Club, near Chicigo, there
were not more than seven golf clubs
in the Chicago district. Jf there were
more rry memory fails to recall them
at this moment. And' yet it was a
common thing then lo speak of the
"great popularity" of the game. It
was but a short time before that a
DOBIE MUST SHOW SKILL
IN DEVELOPING OF BACKS
BY WALTER CAMP.
NEW YORK, September 20.—Were the coach at Cornell any other
than Gilmour Dobie one might be pardoned for skepticism as. to
the Ithacans’ chance of having a backfield that could compare
with the last year’s eleven, which has lost that star trio —Pfann, Ramsey
and Cassidy. But there is hope for Cornell, for Dobie never has failed to
develop backfield stars wherever he goes. *
\\ hen Dobie was coaching out on the Pacific Coast he made a record
quite unsurpassed, basing his development of a team on the theory that
if H men on the attack knew where the play was going, and if each man
did his job thoroughly and correctly, with mathematical timing and pre
cision. the defense could not possibly prevent gains of 10 yards in lour
downs. And it worker!.
DARTMOUTH COVETS
PLACE IN BIG THREE
j
One of the interesting phases of the |
coming foot ball season, as well as;
athletic—and scholastic events lying I
beyond—will be the drawing together i
of Harvard and Dartmouth.
Dartmouth, essentially New Eng- j
land in its tendencies, as well as in !
geographical location, has long looked (
forward to a belter understanding '
with the Cambridge University with |
respect to scholastic procedure and
in’ athletics.
Affairs have been working toward
a consummation of this end. Dart
mouth’s foot ball relations with the
Crimson, which were resumed two
years ago. are by no means likely to
be fleeting. It is not entirely out of
the reckoning that the college at Han
over feels itself entitled to the posi
tion of rivalry with Harvard that
Princeton now holds.
Geographical relationship is clearly t
Indicated, and what Dartmouth would
have to do to take the place at one :
of Harvard’s elbows, now occupied by .
Princeton, would be to overcome a j
traditional rivalry as between the |
New Jersey and Massachusetts id- |
stltutions, which seems valued, so far
as Harvard alumni are concerned, less ,
in Boston than in other parts of the i
country, where graduates of Yale. !
Harvard and Princeton are in closer
communion.
The dropping of the Harvard- j
Princeton freshman foot ball game is j
regarded as significant by some, as ;
is the placing of Dartmouth upon the j
Yale varsity schedule, a fact which
is taken in connection with the co
operation of Yale, Dartmouth and
Harvard in certain important scholas
tic matters, in which, as a matter of
fact, Princeton declined to partici
pate.
Those who are interested in follow- !
ing intercollegiate trend may find it
worth while to watch this one.
NAVY AND MICHIGAN
TO FACE ON GRIDIRON
ANNAPOLIS. Md„ September 30. j .
The Naval Academy and University I ,
of Michigan will meet in two foot 1
ball games, the first next year at Ann i
Arbor and the second in 1926 at An
napolis. This has been officially an
nounced.
The games will be the first to be
played between the two institutions
and the trip next year will be the
Midshipmen's first athletic invasion
of the Middle West. The probable
date of the game is October 31.
The Navy expects to renew its ar- j
rangement with Princeton for home- j
ami-home games, and the Tigers are j
expected to give the Midshipmen their j
big home contest next season. There
fore, the 1925 game with Michigan
will he played at Ann Arbor and the
Wolverines will be the big local at
traction in 1^926.
Jl
"There’s
something
about diem
you’ll like"
/ ' i
m Herbert .
lareyton
I CIGARETTES
I A QUARTER- AGAIN
Chicago newspaper photographer had
been hurried out to the Onwentsia
course to snap pictures of the society
people of the Gold Coast playing their
new game. This came abiHU because
the managing editor of the paper,
driving by the course in his buggy
on Sunday, the day before, had wit
nessed men chasing the ball around
in the so-called pasture. 1 have in
my treasures olte of the photographs
that was actually made under these
circumstances.
No other sport in all the history of
sports introduced into this country or
originating here can duplicate the
growth of golf. It has come upon us
with the swiftness of the develop
ment of the automobile industry, al
most with the magic growth of the
movies.
Golf has attained this amazing
I At the Naval Academy Dobie found
his backfield material too slow. Be
fore he got through he brought up to
j New York a Navy team which won
i over the Army, ami it was the fastest
j striking backfield seen in the East.
Since he has been at Cornell Dobie
has developed some powerful, heady,
striking back’s, whose characteristic
j was that same speed in getting to
i the opening and ability to lake ad-
I vantage of that opening and keep go
j ing. Last year's brilliant trio has
.gone the way of all foot ball players,
; but who shall say that Dobie will not
bring forth another good crop?
To start With, he has Patterson of
last year's backfield. and some last
j year's substitute material in Tilton.
Wade and Webster. Then there is
Mol I i net. last year's freshman full
back; Munns, a scion of the other who
have made gridiron names at Cornell,
and Hoekelman. who can he used at
quarter.
For the line Dobie is in pretty good
shape, having his old ends, Henderson
and Knecn; AtTeld for center; Morris
for left guard and Kearney for left
tackle.
George Pfann is to te his assistant
I and every one grants that ho knows
j a lot about backfield work. Dobie
■ also has Hunt for Ills lineman, as
well as Hanson to assist him in the
i coaching.
NEW GOLF PROBLEM
IS CAUSED BY TOAD
REDCAR. Yorkshire, September 29. —
j A. toad has brought a new problem to
j the golfing world.
In a match between amateurs and
professionals, W. Ixiveridge landed his
hall in the rough. As the player ap
proached a large toad jumped up. and
the ball, which had apparently rested on
the toad's back, disappeared into a hole.
To play the ball laiveridge pushed the
| toad away, but it Jumped into the hole
where the bail had lodged, rendering it
unplayable. The point at issue was
whether, in lifting out the ball and
dropping it to play the second shot.
Loveridge should -be penalized.
It was ruled that since the ball had
been moved by an agency outside tin
game no penally should be incurred.
HARVARD STAR RETURNS.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., September 30.
j —Joseph McGlone, one of the var
j sity quarterback candidates on the
\ Harvard foot ball squad, has return
j ed to practice after several days' de
tention as a diphtheria carrier. Hen
ry T. Dunker. under quarantine as a
diphtheria, patient, was said to be
getting along well and Cripison
coaches now expect to have him
back in time to play in the Prince
ton and Yale games.
*
PLANS DOUBLE RACING.
CLEVELAND, Ohio. September 30.
j —The historic North Randall race
track, which for 16 years has been
the home of grand circuit harness
horse racing, will be the scene of run
ning horse races as well, if present
plans go through.
spread of popularity because it Is,
first, an amateur sport, and. secondly,
because it is the foremost of the par
ticipant sports. The golfer plays at
his own game, which is the basic rea
son why the sport lives. Men are In
terested in base ball and then that
interest passes. The same thing with
other spectator Sports. Other inler
«sts in life's affairs often crowd out.
sooner or later, the desire for these
things. It is different with g<»lf. This
game possesses a charm, a lure, that
is magnetic.
One of the strange factors of this
all-inclusive growth of the sport is
that it has accomplished its popular
ity against an attitude that ofen has
been downright prejudice. This at
titude exists to a considerable degree
today, because golf is nothing to look
at. The man who never has played
Inside Golf.
I- ■ By Chester Honor.
When rhyllini linn been accom
plished in the back suing there Is a
I reeling of tightness in Ihe grip at the
lop of Hie back swing, but there Is
J 1 ' Ino stiffness or rfg
. ders. It Is a great
common fault for
golfers to aeetimn
lale rigidity in the
shoulders when
they make their
bnek swing. This
rigidity means
quick death lo
rhythm. The best
you can get. with
this stiffness, is
one of those stiff
k balls—a hit that
" you instinctively
know has some-
AT TOP OF thing Ihe matter
SWING • I with U, but you
1 don’t know jilt
filial. It's n very helpful idea to take
n club up to Hie top position, in prac
tice swings, with the thought In mind
of keeping rigiitili out of the left
shoulder ns Ihe club is taken up! Ac
quire ihe correct feeling of ease nnd
relaxation tbronghout the shoulders
during this part of the swing, and
note how they renll> wind up. like n
spring, when stiffness is kept out of
thrill.
(l.'upyriglit, Jolin I - , mile Co t
BANNOCKBURN GOLF
DRAWS A BIG FIELD
\V*ith several golfers who have won
tournaments about Washington re
cently in tile field, including Walter
R. Tuckennan of Burning Tree, the
District champion, the annual Fall
invitation tournament of the Ban
nockburn Golf CTub will start to
morrow over the Cabin John course.
More than HO golfers from every
club about Washington have entered
the tournament.
R. Cliff McKimmie, the Middle At
lantic champion: George .1, Voight
and Charles N. Agnew. jr.. crack play
ers of the Bannockburn Club will
start with the formed pair scheduled
for Thursday afternoon.
Two days will be devoted to the
qualification round, the first half of
the medal round
morning at 9 o'clock.
Albert R. MacKenzie of Columbia,
who won the event'last year, defeat
ing Karl F. Kellerman, jr., of Co
lumbia in the final, is paired with
Donald Woodward of Columbia otv
Thursday afternoon.
Oliver E. Sweet and Ills son James,
won the first “pater el filius" tourna
ment held yesterday over the coucse
of the Argyle Country Club, with an
aggregate medal score of 199. The
senior Swet I had low medal score of
the tourney with a card of 91. Charles
L. Gables and his son Raymond were
second with 201 and H. C. Peacock
and his son Richard were third with
202.
The club will hold a two ball mixed
foursome next Sunday, with a tomb
stone- event to follow the next week
and the regular Fall handicap tour
nament a week later.
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All leathers MtlßtyS ir- lou will be
individual correct U f lt *
skyles at jmnu j ,cci al Hess’
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Shoe-selling—
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to the cold proposition of
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I shoes. WE ARE EN
THUSED —we can tell you 4
- . | all about every pair of
shoes we show you —be-
r cause WE MAKE THE
i SHOES WE SELL.
AND BESIDES —we wish
i to impress that a man can
r 1 ■ secure every shape and
J ”N kind of shoes. HIGH or
i- | LOW, from our stock. You
• , * i buy the shoe you like—
J ] your purchase here is
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tAC Mm ;
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MiiiiiiiHK
, can scarcely find It within the bounds
, of possibility that -he could be inter
• ested in "chasing a little white bail
all over the countryside.” We all
know what happens to this same man
once he takes club in band and hits
the ball —or tries to.
1 The statement that, golf now has
attained supremacy among sports in
America may find a challenge. There
' | are those who will point to the “mil
‘ I lion-dollar throngs’’ that attend prize
1 fights. Or to the tens of thousands
i who follow horse racing. Or to base
1 j ball.
! Prize fighting and base ball have,
in my own humble .opinion, almost
ceased to be sports.. As for horse
racing, it isn't a sport at all, but a
means for gambling. The man who
follows the horses is not the least in
terested in the <tcience of creating
horse flesh. He Is interested only in
! the money he hopes to win when the
! horsq runs. I cite this not at all be
| cause T am personally opposed to
; horse racing. I am for it, if anything.
• If thousands of men who go to the
i tracks get sport and relaxation from
j it, my attitude is that perhaps they
\ enjoy that as much as you or 1 enjoy
j a round of golf. My purpose here is
lo compare it as a sport with golf.
; and golf wins.
For every man or woman who at
j tends a base ball game today, 1 ven
i ture there are two playing golf. Add
j to the actual participants in rounds
of golf over the country today the
I numberless small boys who may be
| seen here and there, everywhere,
I swinging mashie or midiron in a va
| cant lot. and then add to these the
j tens of thousands of caddies—all
| healthy, superb hoys who are. In golf
! today, being made better citizens for
! tomorrow. Add all these up and it
i is plain. al» a glance, that golf now
i is the American sport,
j As for boxing. It is hopelessly- out j
■ of it. The professional bout is bally- !
■ hooed for months before it takes i
j place. For some strange reason pub- j
; licity all out of proportion with the j
importance of the affair, as a sport,
j is? given the promotion. Then, if 100.-
: 000 persons attend it is heralded as
I "the battle of a century.” or what
| not? On the day it takes place, ten
i times the number of men and women
| would he' found playing golf. Stage
j one of these so-called big fights every .
I day for a month and the sport of :
boxing would almost pass into ob
■ livion in this country. The sport ‘
: lives through a professional repres- j
I sion; the country will absorb but so j
} much of it and no more. Contrast j
that with golf, of which we appar- i
ently cannot- get enough.
Despite all this, golf is in its in
fancy here in -his country. We have i
made the sport democratic and !
! “Chick” Evans whose golf record is j
i without parallel in the gnnals of any |
; other sport, must go down in golf his- ;
i tory as the greatest single influence ;
I that made golf in America so differ- '
! ent from golf abroad. “Chick” erased 1
i the class borders which for centuries 1
bounded this charming sport. His
• contributions of time, his hundreds of
public appearances throughout the .
country and his never-ceasing exhor- |
tations to everybody to take up golf,
finally gave the tidal wave its origi
i nal lunge into action, and today the
country is engulfed by it.
i “Chick” once computeib-that lie had
walked, during his play of exhibition
i matches, as far as from his Chicago
! home to China, and that, as nearly
; as he could estimate it, he had swung
: his, clubs more than 1.000,000 times.
■ These were the hammer blows that
j forged the new link between all-
America and the healthful out-of-doors,
that gave to golf its original appeal to
the masses. It was the genial “Chick”
in these exhibitions, ten years and
more ago. who started the farmers
out in lowa, today, to driving in in
the evening for nine holes of "pas
ture pool.” If you have never heard
|of this ramification of golf you
haven't grasped the amazing appeal
the sport is having everywhere, in
the villages and towns the same as in
! the cities.
It is only a matter of time now bc
! fore. literally, everybody will be
playing golf in this country. Let the
| day be hastened because, while other
! sports amuse, golf is the builder of
j muscle and character. Golf is taken
I on the hoof, and in this day of motor
| oars and speed, with its consequent
j softening of the rising generations.
; anything that calls for "hoof action”
! is a fine thing for the future.
} The most important thing in adult
' life today is lo learn to play—good
I golf.
(Copyright. 1924.*
SPORTS.
CAPITOL HILL GRID TEAM.
HOWEVER, WILL BE LIGHT
Coach Guy on Says His Eleven Will Not Average
' More Than 150 Pounds—Should Have Lots
of Speed in His Backfield.
BY ARQYLE FINNEY.
| RASTERS' has got to bag the 1924 high school foot ball title.” Thi»
I ' about expresses how the Light Blue and White followers feel as
Coach Charley Guyon is whipping his gridders into shape for the
annual championship scries.
Eastern never has been so thoroughly absorbed in foot ball, but this
interest is in direct line with the movement to place its athletics on a
higher plane now that it has facilities, including a stadium, two gym
nasiums. a track and shower bath equipment. The Eastern athletes want
to hang up some rccofds during the first year in their new building.
If earnest endeavor counts for any
thing. the Eastern grldders will cut
a swath on the high school gridiron.
Every youngster in the squad of 43
is responding to (luyon's coaching
with grim determination. The East
ern mentor has a direct line on his
prospects now and yesterday he ex
pressed the opinion that he is wor
ried more with the backfield than
the line.
Tom H6ok, one of the most versatile
athletes in the high schools, is being
counted upon , heavily. He weighs
only a little over 150 pounds, but he
is quite adept at line plunging and
defensive play.
'sweeary is Experienced.
Joe Sweeney, the brigthest prospect
for the berth at quarterback, gained
much experience with the Stanton
Athletic Club last year. He is speedy
and can direct his ball carriers in
veteran style. Gregory, a sub half
back of last year, is among the good
backs, as well as Crump, Gibson and
Kessler.
Although most of these youngsters
are fast. Guyon believes that his final
selection for a back field will
aVerage 143 pounds. The team will
Cyril Tolley Tells:
Hutchinson's Near World Record.
PRIOR to winning the amateur title. Roger Wethered had proved h
mettle in the open championship of 1921, which was played over th
St. Andrews course, Scotland. At the end of 72 holes he was tie*
with Jcck Hutchison, who had come from America to the scene of hi
birth to meet and conquer all British golfers.
Roger, then an Oxford University man, lost in the play-off, but h
had established a record by tying Hutchison. It was the first time sine
the inception of the open championship, 61 years before, that an amateu
had finished the regulation 72 holes on a par with a professional.
As a matter of fact. Roger should
have had the title. During the last
round, when he made a 7V. he inad
vertently stepped on the ball and
this cost him a stroke. Otherwise he
would have been around in 70. equal
ing the professional record for the
course and winning the champion
ship with a 293.
However, it was Hutchison who
gave Britishers one of the greatest
thrills they ever have had. All
through the tournament he provided
a magnificent exhibition of how to
play the irons. In the first round,
at the 135-yard eighth hole, he stun
ned his gallery by sinking his mashie
tee shot for a hole in one.
This was thrilling, but on the 280-
yard ninth Jock provided an even
greater sensation His amazingly
beautiful drive look the ball lo the
green. It rolled up and hit the cup.
bouncing out.
It would have been a feather in his
cap to make two successive holes
in 1 in ■«. British open tourna
ment. Probably this would have set
a record which never would have
been equaled.
It is reported to me that an Ameri
can amateur once made two succs
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tip the scales little over the loO
pound mark, according to Ouyon.
It would appear that Ouyon should
develop a lirst-rate line. Dintr
Hughes is impressing at center, whilo
Schaefer is giving a good account of
himself at guard, together with Ed
wards. Beds Sheehy is the largest
youngster in the squad, and he i»
sure to land a tackle job on the first
eleven Hogge, Silverman and Heintx
also are being considered for the Jin*.
Barker hop*v< to play both in the line
and backlield.
Has Two Good I’unler*.
.
i 7n Crump and Schaefer Ouyon be
-1 lieves he can develop a kicker every
inch as good as Jack Smith of last
year. Howard and Walters are about
the best at the end positions, but
neither could b.e termed fast. Guyon
probably will shift one of two of his
backs to the wing positions in the
event that Howard and Walters do
not improve. ,
Eastern will present an cflicicnt
! overhead attack in the series if
I Ouyon's youngsters absorb his teach
| ings. Last year the light blue and
white athletes subdued Western
I mainly because it was better with the
overhead game.
j give holes in 1 during a friend!.'
match. This probably is a world rec
ord. Fine as it is. it would have been
dimmed had Hutchison holed out tha
280-yard drive during the stress of
big tournament like our open.
CRICKETERS PLAY DRAW.
PHILADELPHIA. September 30.--
Rain today caused the cancellation
iof the three-day cricket match be
| tween the incogniti eleven of Eng
land and the Gentlemen of Philadel
phia, the contest being declared a
draw. The match was started on
Saturdav when the British cricketers
scored 273 runs in their first inings.
aqd the Philadelphians 34 runs for
the loss ot two wickets, when
stumps were drawn for the day.
COLUMBIA RETAINS MILLER
NEW YORK. September 30. —Fred
Miller, coach of the 1924 Columbia
Varsity crew, has been reappointed.
Wilbur Marshall, coxswain of the Co
lumbia Varsity eight for the past
three years, and George Wascheck.
stroke of the 1924 crew, will be his
assistants.