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G. U. Needs Places for Sport Matches : Links Masters to Write for The Star
HILLTOP!®’ GYM
IS NOT HIG ENOUGH
Shy Space for Basket Ball
and Seating Capacity for
Boxing Also.
BY H. C. BYRD.
Georgetown, -with a good
boxing schedule and a basket
ball schedule .longer than last
year’s, is seeking a place to
hold its matches and play its
games.
So far as boxing Is concerned, it is
probable the matches will be held either
at the City Club or the Jewish Com
munity Center, according to report from
the Hilltop, but the basket, ball situa
tion is completely in the air. It was
thought at one time that the new Tech
nical High School gymnasium might be
available, but that is not complete.
More than probable does it seem that
Georgetown will be compelled to play
basket ball games in its own gym
nasium, and it makes no secret about
not wanting to do that. The Blue and
Gray gymnasium is entirely inadequate
either for staging good basket ball com
petition or to seat spectators, and the
good schools simply are not going to
schedule basket ball games here unless
they have a good floor.
Almost the first question one hears
when proposals are made for basket
ball contests is, "Have you got a good
.floor?” and most of the schools know
the kind of playing conditions in the
Georgetown gymnasium.
Lack of seating capacity also is the
reason the Blue and Gray desires to
stage its boxing matches in another
building. The gymnasium on the Hill
top is not much better from this point
of view for boxing than for basket ball.
This lack of a suitable place for its
Indoor sports ought to be sufficient in
centive for Georgetown alumni to get j
busy, raise some money and build a |
structure to meet this need. Financial j
resources among Blue and Gray grad
uates are so great there should be lit
tle difficulty getting together enough
cash to construct, a field house on the
Hilltop big enough to give the varsity
and freshman squads all the room they
need to play games and seat thousands '
of spectators. Also such a building could
be used as an auditorium for general
university needs.
Georgetown basket ball game with
Duke University tomorrow night at 8
o’clock probably will be played in Ryan
gymnasium. A more spacious floor has
been sought for the game by the Hoyas,
but thus far none has been obtained.
The game will be the first home con
test for the Blue and Gray since before
the holidays.
Incidentally, It might be mentioned
In speaking of such things that the
University of Maryland probably will
have to get by during the Spring with
some makeshift arrangements. It re
cently began some construction work
in connection ■with its athletic plant
which within the next year should give
it about the best general equipment in
the South for intercollegiate sports and
intramural games for the entire student
body, but this work has left the varsity
athletic field in a mess, especially as
around 7,000 cubic yards of dirt have
been dumped on it in order to raise
the playing field to a perfect level and
to get better surface drainage.
Arrangements have been made where
by the entire track and field schedule
will be carried out on opponents fields
as about two thirds of the track is
under 3 feet of new earth and it will be
impossible to get a new track built in
time for Spring. This also necessitates
cancellation of the annual Spring field'
day, with its accompanying in ter
echolastci track meet; this meet will be
held again next year. A new base ball
field with stands will have to be con
structed, and a temporary lacrosse field
also is sure to be necessary.
It is possible that a basket ball league
Comprising the institutions in the South
Atlantic section of the Southern Con
ference may be organized to become
effective next Winter. If the base ball
league, which went through its first sea
son in 1928, is successful during the
coming Spring, it is almost a certainty
that a basket ball circuit will be or
ganized.
The whole situation has been dis
cussed by basket ball coaches and by
those interested in the development of
the sport in the colleges in this section.
Seme talk there was of trying to put
such a league across this year, but it
was deemed inadvisable because sched
ules were practically complete and a
regular list of games in which each
school might meet every other school
twice was nearly impossible.
St. John's College of Annapolis had a
good foot ball season last Fall and it
"has gone out looking for more worlds to
conquer. Its schedule for r ;xt year in
dicates that it is ready to take on
almost any school and it will have hard
games aplenty. Boston College is one
game it must face and Virginia and
Rutgers are two others. And it also is
to play Western Maryland, which is
likely to be harder than any other.
GEORGIA QUINT TOPS
IN CONFERENCE PLAY
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga., January 7.—Univer
sity of Georgia jumped out in front in
the first week of the Southern Confer
ence basket ball season, marking up
four wins in as many starts, as nine
other teams launched their campaigns.
The Bulldogs showed marked strength i
in the manner in which they disposed j
of South Carolina and Florida.
North Carolina’s Tarheels topped I
their road trip with two conference j
wins.
Tulane and Alabama broke even in
their series at New 7 Orleans, and Ten
nessee, after winning from Clemson, fell
before the Tarheels.
University of Mississippi, conference
champion of last year, has not played
in the conference
The 'standing of conference teams
follows:
, W. L. W. L.
Oeorzts 4 0 Alabama 11
North Carolina.. 2 0 Kentucky 0 1
Oeorgia Tech... 1 0 South Carolina.. 0 2
Tennessee 11 Clemson 0 2
Tulane 1 l Florida 0 2
HOFFMAN QUINT PLAYS
MONROE TEAM TONIGHT
ALEXANDRIA, Va.. January 7.
Hoffman Clothiers will meet one of the
strongest teams on their schedule to
night when they oppose the Quantico
.Marines in the post gymnasium at
Quantico, Va.
The Hoffman five has elected Bussy
Brenner, forward, captain.
George Mason High basketers will go
to Oakton, Va., tomorrow night for the
first of two basket ball games with the
Oakton High School quint. The second
will be played here on January 23.
Hoffman Ruddies have booked a game
with the Jewish Community Center
girls of Washington to be played here
January 16 in the Armory Hall at 7:30.
St. Mary’s Celtic Juniors are without
a game for Wednesday night and have
the use of Armory Hall at 7:30. Tele
phone Richard Carne at Alexandria
2153-J between 6 and 6 p.m.
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Washington Grays to Oppose
Mount Vernon Quint Tonight
A HIGHLY attractive basket ball
game Is carded tonight in Cen
tral High gym between Wash
ington Grays, who are heading
the league flag race with two
win;! in as many starts, and Mount Ver
nons who are tied with Potomac Boat
Club for second place each with three
wins and one defeat. Play will start
at 8 o’clock.
Scoring over Newark Pleasure Club of
Baltimore, 54 to 22, Skinker Bros. Eagles
yesterday evened scores for two drub
bings handed them last Winter by the
Baltimore basfceters. The Newark
Clubmen won two of three matches from
the Birds last season, the latter then
playing as the Anacostia Eagles. Jack
Faber and Joe Sweeney were the big
guns in the Eagles’ attack yesterday,
each registering 16 points. The Birds
set the pace all the way.
In the preliminary yesterday, how
ever, a Baltimore team was victorious.
Original Pontiacs, senior class cham
pions of the Maryland Metropolis, tri
umphed over Boys Club Standards, 19
to 17. Feldman was the winners' scor
ing ace with Lasetee and Tortoice stand
ing out for the home team.
Fort Washington basketers will be
entertained by the Eagles in the regu
lar Wednesday night attraction this
week in Congress Heights Auditorium,
starting at 8:30 o’clock. In a prelimi
nary Army Headquarters and Potomac
Boat Club quints will meet.
In a game that was closely contested
throughout, Phoenix A. C. quint van
quished Knights of Columbus, 25 to 24,
yesterday as the latter opened its sea
son. Nicholson and Zahn for the visi
tors and Farrell and Loftus for the
Caseys starred. K. C. courtmen will
entertain St. Martin’s tossers next Sun
day afternoon in the K. C. gym.
*Anacostia Eagles will hook up with
Army Medical Center tossers in a prac
tice game tonight at 8 o’clock in Walter
Reed gym.
St. Martin’s unlimited class quint,
which overcame Fort Washington five,
39 to 36, yesterday at. the fort, will
entertain Naval Receiving Station to
night at 8:30 o’clock in St. Martin’s
gym. Helss led the St. Martin’s attack
yesterday with 15 points.
In addition to a match tonight with
Y. M. C. A. tossers and a game with
Phoenix A. C. for next Sunday night,
both in the Center gym, nine contests
have been listed for Jewish Community
Center tossers and others are pending.
The list: Tonight, Y. M. C. A.; 13,
Phoenix; 16, Hoffman Clothiers, Alex
andria; 20, French A. C.; 21, Army
War College; 23, Harriman Co., Cen
tral; 27, Knights of Columbus; Feb
ruary 5, W. H. West, Central; 6, Army
War College, Barracks; 28, Company P,
Hyattsville; March 14, Y. M. C. A.,
away.
Setting » faster pace In the late go
ing, Red Shields basketerß downed Sil
ver Spring, Md., National Guard tossers,
22 to 19, yesterday at the Silver Spring
Armory, Red Shafer, with 8 points, >
was the ace of the winners’ attack,
but R. Kreh of the losers with 9 took
individual honors.
Games with unlimited class teams In
and around the city are sought by
American Railway Express Co. basket
ers. Call Manager Mclptosh at Poto
mac 3182. The expressmen will drill
Wednesday night at 7:30 o’clock in
the Terminal “Y” gym in preparation
for their match Friday with Potomac
Boat Club.
| Woltz Photographers are gunning for
games with leading unlimited class fives
in this section, and particularly want a
game for tomorrow night with a team
having a gym. Manager Woltz may be
reached at National 5783 today or at
Cleveland 838 tonight.
De Molay basketers, 34-20 victors
over Junior Young Friends Club yes
terday, are seeking games with 135-140-
pound class quints, and especially want
a match for next Saturday night with
a team having a gym. Call Manager
Goodman at Georgia 1066 after 6:30
p.m. Wood starred for De Molay yester
day, counting 17 points.
To discuss basket ball Chevy Chase
A. C. members will meet tomorrow
night at 7:30 o’clock at 4604 Forty
third street. Junior and senior class
learns are to be formed, according to
Manager Hammond.
Caging five goals from scrimmage
and a foul shot, Kremer led Jewish
Community Center unlimited class
quint to victory over Harriman & Co.
tossers. 40 to 23, last night in the Cen
ter gym.
Jewish Community Center Flashes
won two games last night, downing
: Lionels, 66 to 15, and Americans, 24
, to 4. Flashes want a game for Wednes
day afternoon after school. Call Cleve
; land 3732.
Manager Hayes is booking games for
i Wilson Stars with quints in the 135-
pound class having gjnag; Hayes may
THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. T>. C„ MONDAY. JANUARY 7, 1929.
be reached at Lincoln 6895 between 5
and 6 p.m.
Meridian tossers want a game for
tonight with a five in the 100-pound
class having a floor. Call Potomac
3154.
NEALE MAY HANDLE
VIRGINIA GRIDDERS
By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va„ January
7. —Release of Earle Neale, Virginia
head coach of foot ball and base ball
since 1923. from his contract, which
extends to June, 1931, which has been
unofficially agreed upon, does not neces
sarily mean that he will not be head
coach of foot ball in 1929.
The athletic council will meet tomor
row night and it is expected to for
mally record a vote waiving the terms of
the contract in order that Coach Neale
may become head coach of the St.
Louis Cardinals. At the same time, the
council will consider the selection of
a coach for next Fall, and Neale’s name
will probably be the first to be taken
up.
Members of the council have made It
known that Coach Neale’s first request
was that with release from his contract
he be allowed to continue as head
foot ball coach, reporting for duty
early in October at the end of the base
ball season in the major leagues.
His plan was that his assistant
coaches should carry on the preliminary
training in accordance with the system
that has been followed by the Cavaliers.
Coach Neale would’ arrive about two
weeks before the Virginia Military In
stitute game and would continue to
coach until the end of November.
This, officials said, Neale agreed to do
at a greatly reduced salary.
| WOMEN IN SPORT
BY CORINNE FRAZIER.
India, the land of antiquity, where wom
en are often pictured as leading secluded
lives, bound by customs established
centuries ago, is, as a matter of fact,
most up-to-date in matters regarding
the gentler sex, especially the education
al and athletic programs for her young
girls, according to Mme. Sarojini Naidu,
prominent woman leader from India,
who is in America on a lecture tour.
Co-education is popular in India,
where there is a strong tendency to
ignore all distinction as to sex, and in
the co-educational schools, which abound
in the land, no less attention is paid
to the physical training of the girls
than of the boys.
“Our girls engage in many sports and
in vast numbers,” said Mme. Naidu in
an interview with the writer yesterday.
"Tennis is very popular with us, as is
base ball, badminton and other games.
1 1 have not seen the girls playing basket
ball, but no doubt they soon will add
it to their schedule, if they haven’t done
so already. I have been away for some
time.” And she smiled her quizzical
Eastern smile. Mme. Naidu is anxious
for the people of the Western Hemis
phere—especially here In America—to
understand the up-to-dateness of her
people, who are alive to every vital issue
of the day and far ahead of “modern
civilization” in some of their ideas.
Base ball—our great American, ultra
modern, rough Western sport—as one
of the favorite pastimes of the Hindu
maid in her eastern homeland! This |
information, we’ll admit, was received!
with amazement, though we had been !
warned before meeting Mme. Naidu
that we were to be enlightened as to the
popular conception of Indian customs.
Tennis and badminton we were pre
i pared for, but when “base ball” fell
glibly from our distinguished visitor’s
lips, w 7 e listened for her to say it a sec
, ond time before venturing to write it
i Into our notes.
"Our girls are very fond of base ball,”
i continued Mme. Naidu, "and play it in
■ large numbers. Athletic training is con
sidered quite as essential to their educa
tion as to that of your own girls here
; ln America. Mass participation in
’ athletics is encouraged universally.
’ “Badminton, of course, Is one of our
> oldest sports. It has been played in
* our country for many, many years. Ten
nis also is very popular, and we have
. our local, sectional and national cham
' pionships.”
* Where there’s a will there’s away!
* In Chelsea, Mass., a playground was
■ needed badly, but no money was forth
coming with which to purchase the
land, so the park department bought
portable swings, slides, seesaws and a
[ wooden platform for dancing and placed
. them ln side streets during the day
time, storing them away at night.
Rhlnock, stellar handicap horse of
r the Parkview Stable, is out of training
-for the remainder of the year because
y of a foot ailment.
NEW SPORT COMBINES
COURT, GRID FEATURES;
j ROME, January 7 (JP). —A new j
sport, “Volata” (flight), is regarded !
| by Secretary Turati of the Fascist ;
! party, its inventor, as combining the j
best features of basket ball and as- j
i sociatiori foot ball.
A throng roared approval at the j
first public game in the new stadium
of Rome yesterday. It resulted in a
5-to-5 tie.
Each team is composed of eight
players. The man with the ball can
run only 10 meters before passing,
kicking or dribbling. He can pass in
any direction, can be tackled and
thrown by any number of opponents,
but cannot attempt to throw the
round ball into the goal or kick it in
when within 30 meters of it. One
goal scores as one point.
Four of the players are called
“supports” and two are known as
I “points.” There is one goalkeeper.
HAWKS, DIXIE PIGS
HEAD COURT LEAGUE
HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 7.
Play in the first half of the Prince
Georges County Basket Ball League
will be completed Saturday night.
Brentwood Hawks are leading the flag
race with £ve victories against no de
feats. Dixre Pigs stand second with four
wins and one loss. Berwyn and Com
pany P Reserves No. 1 teams are tied
for third, each with four triumphs and
two setbacks. Three teams are dead
locked for fifth place, Headquarters
Company of Laurel, Hyattsville Comets
and Company P Reserve team No. 2.
each has two wins against four defeats.
Mount Rainier is in the cellar, having
lost all six of its starts.
Outstanding players in league com
petition include Johnny Wanley of the
Hawks, Bob Lyles and Hook of Dixie
Pigs, Weigel and Gubisch of Berwyn
and J. Shanklin and Chase of Com
pany P Reserve team No. 1.
League games heretofore scheduled
Monday night at Hyattsville, from now
on will be played Sunday afternoons in
the armory here as preliminaries to
games in which the regular Company F
team will appear.
Five games are listed in the league
this week. The first will be played to
morrow night at Laurel between Dixie
Pig and Comets. Company P Reserve
team No. 2 will meet Berwyn here
Thursday night. A double-header will
be staged Friday night at Laurel be
tween Dixie Pigs and Headquarters Com
pany and Brentwood and Mount
Rainier. Company F Reserve team No.
1 will face the Hawks here Saturday
night in a postponed match.
Two Company F basket ball teams
were victorious in the armory in the
regular Sunday afternoon court pro
gram. The Guard Regulars, after be
ing held 12-10 at the half, defeated
Washington Scholastics, 29 to 17, and
in a Prince Georges County League
match Company P Reserve team No.
1 downed Mount Rainier, 29 to 13. Bob
Shanklin, Wright and Vincent were the
big guns on attack for the Company F
Regulars, while Lynch led the visiting
scores. J. Shanklin and Chase were
top scorers for Company P Reserve
team No. 1 in the preliminary.
! Company P Regulars will entertain
I Company C, District National Guard,
I Thursday night in a Washington City
| Amateur Basket Ball League match
following a county league preliminary
between Berwyn and Company P Re
serve team No. 2.
Saturday night the Doughboy first
stringers will play host to their old foe,
Bliss Electrical School and in a curtain
raiser Brentwood Hawks and Company
P Reserve team No. 1, will meet in a
county league encounter. A dance will
follow the games.
Hyattsville High School basketers are
to play two games this week, both on
alien floors Central High will be en
gaged in Washington Wednesday and
Catonsville High at Catonsville, Md.,
Friday. So far Hyattsville has taken
part in three games and has won two.
Central High defeated the home quint
prior to the holidays here, but since
then Hyattsville has defeated Oakton
High of Fairfax County, Va., both at
Oakton and here. Hyattsville will be
seeking to even scores for the pre-holi
day defeat at the hands of Central. In
Catonsville High the locals will be en
gaging an old foe.
PURDUE TOSSERS AT TOP
IN CONFERENCE SCORING
CHICAGO, January 7 (/P).-r-Glen
Harmeson of Purdue, who was among
the leading scorers during the Big
Ten’s 1928 foot ball campaign, has
taken the lead in individual scoring in
basket ball.
Caging seven field goals and two free
throws to lead the Boilermakers in their
triumph of Illinois, Harmeson is five
points ahead of his closest rivals, Rose
: of Michigan, How of Illinois and Two-
: 1 good of lowa, who are tied for second
place, with U points.
BUSINESS TOSSERS
TO DIM IRES
\
Opposes Central in a Series
Game Tomorrow —West-
ern and Tech Clash.
Business will make its debut in the
public high school championship basket
j ball series tomorrow afternoon, engaging
1 Central in one end of the double-header
carded for the spacious gymnasium/in
.the new Tech High Building. Tech and
Western 'will meet in the other en
counter.
Opening series games Saturday were
played in the Catholic University gym
j nasium as the Tech High floor was not
ready for play. The latter gym now is
reported in readiness.
Tech and Western will start the pro
gram tomorrow, beginning their game
at 3:15 o’clock.
Much interest attaches to both games.
Business apparently has a clever team.
The Stenogs will be out to gain a good
start in the series, while Central will
be striving to overcome Business and
keep in the running in the flag race.
Central bowed to Western in an upset
Saturday in an opening match of the
title series.
Tech also was a victor in an upset
Saturday when it triumphed over East
ern and the result of the encounter
between the McKinley boys and West
ern may go far toward determining
the championship.
All the various squads were to be
put through vigorous drills today to
ready them for the games.
Eastern, the lone public high team
which will not get action tomorrow,
will not, however, be idle, being down
to entertain Catholic University Fresh
men in the gym at the Lincoln Park
school.
Two other matches are carded to
morrow hereabout, in which scholastic
teams will figure. Baltimore Poly tas
ters will face University of Maryland
Freshmen at College Park and Benja
min Franklin University will engage
Woodside A. C. at Silver Spring, Md.
•
LIST COURT BATTLE.
Emmanuel Eagles of Anacostla will
face Brookland Athletic Club tonight in
a basket ball game at 8 o’clock. Other
matches with 135-140 pound teams are
wanted by Eagles. Call Manager Clarke
at Lincoln 7534 after 6 p.m.
Timing Is Puzzling Bowler Who
Would Use Radio Wave Attack
BY JOHN A. FERRALL.
THE Kid turned away from the
radio where he had been listen
ing to the Georgia Tech-Cali
fomia foot ball game and start
ed for the door.
“Wait a minute,” urged the Old
Timer, catching him by the. arm
“There’s another quarter yet and plenty
of time for passing and open-field stuff.
I’ve a hunch the boys have a few long
runs in their systems, yet.”
"Sure,” agreed the Kid, promptly,
“and that girl over there has a long
run in her stocking right now. Never
, theless, I’m on my way. You seem to
forget that I have to be down early
tontght to show you dumbbells what al
leys you bowl on. I ”
i That Reminds Me!
J “That reminds me,” said the Old
1 Timer, who seemed to have lost track
' of the Kid’s final words. “Speaking of
1 stockings, I—oh, all right, I’ll go with
: you.”
' “In that case,” mourned the Kid, as
. they boarded the same car, “I’ll have
to stand for that reminds-me stuff. Go
' ahead with the sketch.”
; “It’s a good one,” protested the Old*
‘ Timer. “A girl was standing on a seat
and blocking the view of the people in
back of her. Finally one man who had
given up hope of seeing any more of
the game had an idea. ‘l’ll bet,’ he re
marked in a loud voice, ’that if that
girl knew she had a large hole in each
I stocking she’d hop off that seat.’ ’’
“Clever stuff,” admitted the Kid.
l “She got down off the seat, all right,”
; said the Old Timer, “and made her way
; out of the park. After a laugh, some
i one said, ‘That was smart stuff. She
t really didn’t have a hole in her stock
ing.’ The first man nodded, ‘Oh, yes,
i she did.’ he declared. ‘I spoke nothing
: but the truth—and the whole truth.
• She had a large hole in each stocking—
s otherwise she couldn’t get her feet in
■ ’em.’ ”
l “Har, har, har! that was the truth—
and the ‘hole’ truth,” admitted the Kid.
GOLFERS PRIMING
| FOR SIO,OOO EVENT
Tournament at Los Angeles
Will Have About 200
in Competition.
i
By the Associated Press.
CHULA VISTA, Calif., January 7.
The West’s golfing trail, trod by some
200 of the country’s professionals and
amateurs, turned North today after
circling over the La Jolla and Chula
Vista courses in this section, leading
the knickered forces to the greatest
test of all—the SIO,OOO Los Angeles
open.
Being played over the Riviera Country
Club course, just a stone’s throw from
the Pacific Ocean near Santa Monica.
Calif., the Los Angeles event, starting
Wednesday as the climax of a series
of tournaments on the coast, will draw
a prime field of entries. Those who
participated in the Portland, Oreg.;
Honolulu, Sacramento, Catalina Island,
Long Beach, La Jolla and San Diego
opens will be there, along with many
others.
A good many of those who partici
pated in the La Jolla and San Diego
opens had left, or planned to depart
today for Los Angeles, hoping to get
in a few practice rounds before the
big money tournament gets under way.
Nearly a hundred others, including
Walter Hagen, peer of professionals, and
Leo Diegel, national professional king
and winner of the $2,500 San Diego
open here yesterday, will be entered.
Horton Smith, youthful Joplin, Mo.,
sensation, crossed the international bor
der to the Agua Caliente Country Club
in Mexico to compete in a SI,OOO minia
ture tournament. The event, known
i as the "Tom Thumb” tournament, will
be over 18 holes and played over the
"pitch and putt” course of the club.
The San Diego open closed in a heavy
downpour, accompanied by chilling gusts
of wind that blew away the chances of
many of the leaders, but Diegel never
faltered. He came home with 71 —69 —
71—71—282, on the par 72 course. He
received $750.
One stroke behind Diegel was Smith,
I the 21-year-old marvel, who earned a
place on the United States Ryder Cup
team with his marvelous showing in the
tournament. Hagen, who is captain of
that squad, declared that the rapidly
developed Missourian would be a mem
ber of the team. Smith’s four trips over
the rolling Chula Vista layout were
71—66—72—74—283, giving him $450 as
second prize money.
Henry Cuici, slight Italian from
Bridgeport, Conn., admittedly playing
one of his best tournaments, held down
third place and S3OO, with 70 —68—73 —
73 —284. He was followed by A1 Wat
rous, veteran of Detroit, who had 71—
73—68—73—285.
The swarthy Chicagoan, A1 Espinosa,
who was an outstanding figure in the
two qualifying rounds, lost the feel of
his putter in the 36-hole final drive,
but managed to land in fifth place, with
286, in a tie with Johnny Golden of
Paterson, N. J., who won the $2,500 La
Jolla open.
LOCALSOCCERTEAM
BEATEN BY VISITORS
Bowing to Cervantes hooters of Phila
delphia yesterday, 2 to 4, on the Blad
ensburg road field, Clan MacLennan
soccer team of this city wras eliminated
from play in the National Amateur Cup
Tie tournament. It was a second
round match, but the first for each
team, both having drawn byes in the
first round last week. Originally the
game was carded for Philadelphia.
Clan MacLennan did not succumb be
fore a great fight, forcing the visitors
to an extra period to triumph. The
home combination twice came from be
hind to tie the score, the first time at
the half, which ended 1-1, and the sec
ond time at the conclusion of regula
tion play, which was tied at 2-all.
Cervantes were the aggressors all the
way, their short passing attack proving
effective.
A1 Watts was the Clan star, account
ing for both of his team’s goals.
McCauley of the visitors turned in
the most spectacular shot when in the
extra period he zoomed the leather into
the net, which had been left momen
tarily unprotected by Goalie Staatz of
the Clan, who had been drawn out.
Wood assured victory for the visitors
with a goal in the closing minutes.
T™h?n. tes (4) ’ Position. Clan McL. (2).
J. Olimpo R. h. Hodges
li aird L-H Robson
Duncanson C. H Gallagly
Callahan O. L....... Bruce
Leu the I. L Watts
McCauley Center McLean
Wood I K Bryden
Jacovelll O. R Malloch
Score by periods:
Cervantes 1 1 »2—4
Clan 1 l o—3
•Extra period.
Goals: Clan MacLennan—Watts (2). Cer
vantes—Woods. Callahan (2), McCauley.
Referee —Mr. Bleuer. Linemen—Messrs. Al
verez and Caldwell. Time of halves—4s
minutes.
“Say,” he added, “how about getting
down to the alleys at about 7:30 for a
couple of practice games?”
“I’m off the practice stuff this year,”
announced the Old Timer. “The time
has come for me to substitute brains
for brawn. Yes, sir, I’m cutting out
the practice and applying a little
scientific stuff to duckpinning.”
Well, I'm glad you've at last decided
that something drastic Is needed If you
are ever going to lift yourself out of
the ninety class,” said the Kid. “But
what Is the new method—tossing sticks
of dynamite at the ducks instead of
shooting at ’em with the regulation
duck pin ball?”
Turning to Radio on Duckpins.
“It’s the radio principle,’ explained the
Old Timer. “You know how they run
a boat or guide a car by radio waves?
Well I’m working out something along
that line—l propose to sweep the pins
off by radio waves from a little outfit I
shall wear on my belt buckle.”
“I see,” said the Kid.
“One point is bothering me a little,”
admitted the Old Timer. "I must work
out a method of timing.’
“Timing?’’ asked the Kid. puzzled.
, “Yes; I’ve got to learn to time the
radio waves so that, the pins will not
topple before the ball reaches them and
hits them.”
•I don’t see why that should bother
you,” protested the Kid. “If you only
got the pins you actually hit, your aver
age would never be over 60. Everybody
knows that with your luck the pins
usually fall without being hit.”
‘Laugh.” said the Old Timer. “You
know what the advertisement says:
‘They laughed at me when I spoke to
the waiter in Italian —but he came
right back with some Scotch.’ Just wait
and see. And as for luck —”
"Oh, I’m not criticizing you; I’m en
vying you,” declared the Kid. “Why
you’re so lucky they’ve named a bowl
lng alley after you.”
“After me?”
‘Sure,” agreed the Kid. “Why else, do
you suppose, did Bill Wood call his
establishment the ‘Lucky strike?’”
SUGGESTS ELIMINATION
OF FOOT BALL GUARDS
PHILADELPHIA, January 7 C4D.—
If the foot ball rulemakers wish to
speed up the game and make scor
ing more frequent, Lawson Robert
son, trainer at the University of
Pennsylvania and head coach of
American Olympic teams, suggests
the removal of the two guards.
“There are too many men on the
field now,” he said, “and I would
suggest dropping the guards. They
are there, they work hard; nobody
sees them. They just make the game
more complicated by their presence
on the field without adding in the
least to the thrills. Removal of the
guards would mean more scoring.”
Robertson’s suggestions found little
favor with Lou Young, Penn coach.
"So far as I am concerned,” he
said, “I wish they would let foot
ball alone. It’s all right the way it
is.”
BUSY WEEK AHEAD
OF BIG TEN FIVES
Purdue, lowa and Wisconsin
Tied for Top as Race
Gets Started.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 7.—With Purdue,
lowa, Wisconsin and Michigan tied at
pennacle with one victory each as the
Big Ten basket ball championship race
breaks into a gallop this week with a
nine-game program.
Every team will get into action at
least once. Indiana and Chicago, the
only teams which did not get into the
championship race Saturday night,
jump into the thick of action with two
battles each.
Michigan’s performers have probably
the hardest program of the week, invad
ing Wisconsin and lowa, two strong con
tenders for the championship. The
Wolverines appear to have played all
their poor basket ball in their first
practice game and are very much in the
race as evidenced by their 32-to-20 vic
tory over Northwestern Saturday.
Ohio State invades Northwestern and
Michigan tackles Wisconsin tonight.
Tomorrow night, Purdue invades Chica
go and Indiana starts by tangling with
Illinois at Champaign. Saturday night
every team will be in action, Northwest
ern at Purdue; Wisconsin at Chicago:
Indiana at Minnesota; Michigan at
lowa, and Illinois at Ohio State.
As a result of Saturday night’s lid
raising contests, Wisconsin today was
the only undefeated Big Ten team. The
Badgers won their four practice season
games and made if five straight by de
feating Minnesota, 29 to 21, at Minne
apolis.
Northwestern lost Its first game of
the season to Michigan, while Purdue
handed Illinois its first setback, 33 to
24. at Lafayette. All the rest have been
defeated once or more.
lowa’s Huskies trimmed Ohio State,
34 to 26, in the roughest contest of the
Big Ten championship Inaugural, but
looked impressive in doing so.
The five-man defense kept scoring
down to a low point in the first skir
mishes, which, with the exception of
the Michigan-Northwestern contest, ran
true to pre-season calculations.
BASKET BALL GAMES
FOR SCHOOL TEAMS
TOMORROW.
Business vs. Central, Tech vs. West
ern (public high title games), Tech
High gym.
Catholic 17. Freshmen vs. Eastern,
at Eastern.
Baltimore Poly vs. Maryland Fresh
men, at College Park, Md.
Benjamin Franklin V. vs. Woodslde
A. C., at Silver Spring, Md.
WEDNESDAY.
Business vs. Catholic C. Freshmen,
at Brookland.
Hyattsville High vs. Central High, at
Central.
FRIDAY.
Central vs. Tech, Business vs. East
ern (public high title games), Tech
High gym.
Western vs. University of Maryland
Freshmen, at College Parte.
Catholic U. Freshmen vs. St. John’s,
at St. John’s.
St. Alban's vs. Leonard Hall, at
Leonardtown, Md.
Bliss Electrical School vs. Alumni, at
Silver Spring, Md.
Hyattsville High vs. CatonsviUe, Md.,
High, at Catonsville.
SATURDAY.
Bliss Electrical School vs. Company
F, at Hyattsville.
big ten to Detain
RESERVE GRID PLAN
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 7.—The Big Ten
plan of having reserve foot ball teams
play a regular championship schedule
was successful In 1928, and will be re
peated next season.
A survey of opinions of athletic di
rectors and coaches shows that every
school, with the possible exception of
Indiana and Purdue, favors the reserve
team system.
The general opinion was that even
though the reserve games failed to elicit
much enthusiasm from students and
alumni they were beneficial in uncover
ing new talent and in giving experience
to future stars.
Z. G. Clevenger, director of athletics
at Indiana, said he could see no real
value in reserve games, but Coach Pat
Page of the Hoosiers disagreed, pointing
out they were valuable and should be :
continued. Purdue is not in favor of
the plan, as neither N. A. Kellogg, ath
letic director, nor Coach Jimmie Phelan
could uncover enough talent for one.
Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg of the Uni
versity of Chicago plans to have a few
reserve games scheduled next Fall.
All the other members of the confer
ence expressed enthusiasm for the plan,
indicating a larger program for 1929.
WIDE. SWEDISH RUNNER,
TO TRAIN AT HILLTOP
Track fans here will have opportunity
this week of seeing in action Edvin
Wide, Swedish schoolmaster and holder
of the world outdoor 2-mile record of
9:012-5. He will visit here this week
and will practice on the outdoor track
at Georgetown University.
Wide will be here primarily to in
spect the District school system. He is
expected to remain about 10 days. He
will be accompanied by his bride. Wide
visited this city two years ago.
TROUSERS
To Match Your Odd Coats i
EISEMAN’S, 7th & F 1
SPORTS.'
EXPERTS GIVE TIPS
ON VITAL STROKES
Wizards of Drive, Approach
and Putt Tell How They
and Others Do It.
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.
THIS is an introduction to a aeries
of articles written by some of
the select few who can keep their
heads down and follow through
—the big leaguers of golf. Their
names are respectfully uttered wherever
the smooth skin of fairways is marred
by pits.
The first group of stories will deal
with the execution and tradition of the
shot dearest to the heart of the dub—
the big punch, the heavy sock, the
distance wallop, the drive. Some of
the mightiest thumpers will tell of the
tee shot, how they make It, how others
make it, the best drives they have seen
and what made them best.
The next group of stories will concern
the second shot and the approach. The
third group will deal with the putt,
lacking which the duffer plays the same
old useless game. Stop bragging and
alibiing for a moment, gentlemen of the
iron and the wood. The masters are
about to speak.
What is a great drive? Just how far,
under a tape measurement, can the
siege gun of golf propel a ball?
Moose Knowles’ Great Feat.
In Atlanta they tell you how Moose
Knowles was hole-high with his second
shot on the 560-yard uphill finishing
hole at Brookhaven, or how that mam
moth warrior, Cyril Tolley, carried the
second ditch on No. 6 at Druid Hills
with 15 yards to spare. That ditch is
275 full yards from the tee.
In Muskegon strong men still apeak
in awe-struck voices of the feat of Clar
ence Gamber, when he reached the
green with his second on a 611-yard
hole and scored a 3 where par Is 6. In
Asheville they still show you where Abe
Mitchell, with that short finish, cleared
the trap on the sixteenth—27s yards
away.
Such shots are beyond the compre
hension of the average golfer. He makes
them only in his dreams, or in the
locker room. And 275 yards In the
locker room rarely measures 199 yard*
on the course.
Even among fine hitters, drives of
tremendous length usually are due to
an elevated tee, a favoring wind or a
lightning fast fairway. Frequent driv
ing contests held In the United States.
Canada and abroad have proved that
the man who can average a carry of 250
yards on three shots is an almost cer
tain winner.
A clear test was made at the national 4
links in Southampton, Long Island,
where a tournament was held with an
entry list restricted to 20 of the best
known professionals in the United '
States.
Macdonald’s Freak Bet.
On the third, seventh, eighth, tenth
and eighteenth holes, where the fair
ways are level, yellow flags were planted
240 yards from the tee. These players
proved that none of the stars carried
much more than 225 yards against the *
wind or more than 245 yards with Its
help.
Still, If conditions are right and the
proper roll can be gotten, there’s no
limit to length. Charles B. Macdonald,
who designed the national links, once '
bet that he could drive a golf ball a
mile with a putting cleek if he was 1
allowed to wait until conditions suited
him.
He waited until Lake Michigan froze *
over and there was a veritable gale. A
Then he smacked his ball out over the
ice and it rolled considerably more
than a mile.
Well, there’s driving and driving!
You’ll hear a lot about this in the next
10 stories. Then we shall leave the tee
and proceed to the fairway and the - '
green. Follow’ around with us. You'll
have some fun and you may learn
something useful.
(Copyright, 1929.>
(Wednesday—Willie Macfarlane no
driving.) *»
YOST THINKS RECOVERY
OF FUMBLE SUFFICIENT
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, January 7.—Field
ing "Hurry Up” Yost, foot ball
coach at the University of Michi
gan, believes he has been misunder
stood on his explanation of his pro
posed rule amendment under which
a bail fumbled by one team would be
declared dead at the point fumbled,
if recovered by the opposition.
Hoping to clear up any misunder
standing. Yost said he believed loss
of punting distance was sufficient
penalty.
“A fumble is not only a mistake,
but denotes inefficiency on the part
of the player, and, consequently, the
entire team. The loss of the ball
on a fumble and its recovery by the
opponent is penalty enough when 1
one considers that the recovering *
team save themselves the full pant
ing distance of the team making the
mistake.
"In other words, a team deep in
its own territory to fumble loses
the chance to punt out, and this in
itself is a penalty. Alertness on the
part of the defense is a fundamental
part of the game, as possession of
the ball is the all-important thing
in the game. Yon want merit to
win. Inefficiency and violation of
the rules should be punished.. Is
not the length of the punt suffi
cient?” ' l
—• •
QUINTS TO PLAY TONIGHT.
Tivoli Whirlwinds will meet Army
War College basketers tonight at 8:15
o’clock in the soldiers’ gym. Players
are to report at 7:30 o’clock.
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