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Faith in Harris Inspires Griff men : Colleges Aiming to Safeguard Boxing
OPTIMISM OF '33
RULES AT 6IL0XI
Batterymen Believe Club
Will Have Great Year.
All Axes Buried.
BT JOHN B. KELLER,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
BILOXI, Miss., March 6.—There
is a spirit of optimism about
this Washington ball club
that is strongly reminiscent
of the training camp here in 1933, the
last year that the Nationals won the
championship in the American
League.
Of course, other than A1 Powell,
the outfielder, all the players in the
•quad conditioning at present are
batterymen. But among these bat
terymen, especially the veteran
pitchers, there seems to be a feeling
that this will be a great ball club.
The old timers in the ranks are not
predicting any pennant for their out
fit. They are cagey enough to steer
shy of any such expression. That
usually is the way with veteran ball
players, but deep down in their hearts
they are convinced of their pitching
goodness and are firm in their con
victions that the Washington ball club
this year will be something far better
than was the aggregation that finished
seventh in last year's race.
Talking with seven oldsters of the
mound staff, one immediately gets
this impression of stability, of poten- j
tial strength. The seven include the j
right-handed Monte Weaver. Bump
Hadley, Ed Linke, Jack Russell and A1
Thomas, and Earl Whitehill and Bob
Burke, left-handers. To a man these
pitchers see a fine year for the Na
tionals.
Think Harris Be«t Pilot.
IN THE first place, each and every
one oi these seven pitchers is per
fectly satisfied with the salary
agreement reached with Clark Grif
fith, president of the ball club. Some
had their arguments with the prexy,
but all were amicably settled. And,
In the second place, each and every
one of these seven pitchers regards
Bucky Harris as the finest manager in
the big leagues.
Some of them have had their differ
ences with Harris. While he was with
the Tigers, the left-handed Whitehill
at times found it difficult to get along
with Bucky. who then was in charge
of the Detroit club. And Burke in his
early days with Washington found
Harris troublesome, he thought. So
did Hadley when he first came up to
the big show.
It's all different now. Each and
every one of these pitchers is thor
oughly loyal. Each and every one will
tell you that Bucky is the best man in
the business. And each and every one
is confident he will give the Washing
ton ball club a great lot of pitching
this year. They have caught the op
timistic spirit of their manager.
WHITEHILL is firm in his belief
that he will have a successful
year. "In the first place,"
says Earl, "I was helped by my trip
to the Orient after last season. I did
a lot of pitching over there and kept
myself in splendid shape. I have come
to camp knowing I don't have to J
battle to take off a bunch of spare
tires. That's been my trouble for
several years, you know.
"I came down here with the pros
pect of having a bit of an argument
with Mr. Griffith about the salary
proposition. Well, that was settled
quickly. You know. Griff is a pretty
fair guy. After talking with him I
realized I might have been wrong after
■11 in my attitude and it wasn't diffi
cult for us to get together.
"And as for those troubles I had
with Harris when he was managing
the Detroit club while I played with
it, well, you can forget about that.
I'm older now, and so is Harris. And
I always have considered Bucky the
brainiest manager in the game. We
aren't going to have any difficulties."
Burke Has Same Views.
BURKE is the same way about his
Ideas of the situation. "When
I first came up from Little Rock
to the Washington club I was a per
fect greenie, of course. I didn't
know what it was all about. And
then I thought Harris β harsh task- :
master. Well, I have learned since
that he's a regular fellow. Since I
found him to be a thorough base
ball man in every way and as I
hare learned how big league clubs
must be run I also have found that
Bucky knows how to run one. I am
confident he will give me a chance
to make a starting pitcher of myself—
the chance I have waited for so long."
The way Whitehill and Burke re
gard this new manager and their
club this time is the way the other
pitchers who have been around the
league three years or more consider
the situation. To them Harris is
without an equal. They like the way
he conducts a training camp. They
think highly of his methods of deal
ing with players. They are strong
for their field general and as a con
aequence strong for their club.
There is a spirit pervading the
pitching squad that smacks of the
1933 training season here. It cer
tainly appears that the Washington
ball club will have plenty of pitching
this year.
COURT RESULTS
Woodward School, 23; Friends
School, IS.
Duquesne, 46; Carnegie Tech, 34.
Waynesburi, 46; Washington and
Jefferson, 36.
St. John's, 35; Western Mary
land, 34.
Huntington, 52; Adrian (Mich.). 52.
Game called by mutual consent at the
end ο I three overtime periods.
fceloit, 28; Ripon, 22.
Doane, 41; Hastings, 32.
Salem, 52; Bethany, 46.
Davis and Elkins, 56; West Virginia
Wesley an, 45.
St. Viator. 30; Valparaiso. 14.
Rio Grande (Ohio), 39; Mountain
Btate College (W. Va.), 23.
Upper Iowa, 28; Simpson, 22.
Mount Union, 52; Muskingum, 33.
Baldwin Wallace, 60; John Car
toll, 34.
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Sports Program
In Local Realm
TODAY.
Basket Ball.
Hopkins at Maryland, 8.
Georgetown at Pittsburgh
Armstrong Night vs. Leesburg
Athletics at Armstrong. 9:15.
TOMORROW.
Basket Ball.
Georgetown vs. West Virginia at
Morgantown.
Douglass High at Armstrong
High. 3:30
Eastern High In Washington and
Lee tourney at Lexington.
Armstrong Night vs. Douglass
Evening High (Baltimore) at Arm
strong, 9.
FRIDAY.
Basket Ball.
Newark State Normal at Wilson
Teachers, 8.
Swimming.
George Washington In intercol
legiates at U. of Pittsburgh.
SATURDAY.
Wrestling.
York iPa.) Y. M. C. A at Cen
tral Y. M. C. Α.. 8.
Rifle.
Coast Guard Academy at George
Washington.
Maryland vs. Navy, at Annapolis,
1:30.
Western vs. Navy Plebes, at An
napolis. 1:30.
George Washington girls vs.
Drexel and Northwestern. Tele
graphic match.
Swimming.
George Washington in intercol
legiates at U. of Pittsburgh.
Basket Ball.
Poolesville (Md.) Junior High
School tourney, at Poolesville, 7:30.
Game With Jays Tonight Is
Maryland's Last Before
Meeting Georgetown.
WASHINGTON'S two remain
ing active college basket
ball quints, Georgetown
and Maryland, swing back
into action tonight with the Terra
pins entertaining Johni Hopkins at
College Park and the Hoyas facing
Pittsburgh in the Smoky City.
For Maryland, tonight's tilt will be
the last prior to the meeting next
Monday with Georgetown. The Hoyas
have one more game on the docket
after tonight. West Virginia will be
encountered tomorrow at Morgan
town. Both of Georgetown's games
are in the Eastern Intercollegiate
Conference.
The Terrapins' hopes have been
boosted by the return of Bemle
Buscher, star forward, who has been
out for some time with an injured
leg. With Buscher in the line-up, the
Old Liners expect to score their sec
ond triumph of the year over Hop
kins. which bowed previously In Balti
more.
Georgetown is conceded little
chance against Pitt and West Vir
ginia. Both handily whipped the
Hoyas in previous games.
Left Fielder, Facing Fight
With Rookie, Joins Squad
at Playing Weight.
ORLANDO, Pla.—Danny Taylor
has reported to training camp
In top condition and the
Brooklyn Dodgers have Stan
ley Borgadary to thank for it.
Taylor, who weighed over 200
pounds at this time last year, scales
a neat 185 today, chiefly because he
knows he has a battle on his hands to
keep his leit-fleld job out of the hands
of Borgadary, highly-touted recruit the
Dodgers bought during the Winter.
Miami beach. Fia.—to gus
Mancuso, apparently, it was an
idle question.
The New York Giants' first-string
catcher was asked which of the
Giants' pitchers had reached the best
early-season form.
I "Hubbell," said Gus, astonished ap
parently by the query. "He's the bast
any time."
BRADENTON, Fla.—Manager Prank
Frisch planned only a routine
practice today for his St. Louis
Cardinals pending the arrival of the
remainder of the squad tomorrow
Joe Medwick. stubborn holdout, Is
due to arrive then for a conference
with President Sam Breadon. Joe is
reported to have demanded $10,000,
away and beyond the Cards' offer.
a VALON, Calif.—Lonnie Warneke.
J\ ace of the Chicago Cub pitching
staff, will make his first start of
the year tomorrow by pitching a few
innings for the yannigans against the
regulars in the first camp game.
Warneke reports he is in the best
shape of his short but brilliant career.
Harris Rates Arch Scrivener,
Griffs' Young Mound Hopeful,
As "Another Tommy Bridges"
BY JIM BERRYMAN.
BILOXI, Misa, March β—A
Georgia Cracker with a dash
of local flavoring is causing |
some raised eyebrows and few
elbow prod? down here along the Gulf
shore. The young man hails from
Augusta, where he did his daily dia
mond chores in the outfield for his
home town's high school nine.
Two years ago Arch Scrivener
traveled northward and dropped
anchor at Alexandria, Va. Immedi
ately his nostrils sniffed sensitively,
through and beyond the unperfumed
acrid wisps along the Memorial High
way. to a college ball club in the Na
tion's Capital. A short time later J
found him working out in the Buff |
and Blue uniform of George Wash- j
ington University.
Merely a Volunteer.
Arch volunteered to aid the insuf
ficient hurling corps in its work of
tossing to the batters during practice
one afternoon, but the trouble was the
stlckmen weren't getting much prac
tice except in swinging. Coach Mor
ris sauntered over to see just what
ailed the boys with the willow wande,
and suddenly he saw—and how and
what he saw. A half-pint southpaw
with a Jo-jah accent and a wicked
curve. And he saw even more—this
pee-wee pitcher was mixing that "iUrve
up with fast ones and slow ones;
some cut the inside comers and some
danced elusively over the outside mar
gins.
The coach went back and took a
nice big glass of cold water—gulped
down twin aspirins and returned.
The phenomena still was in progress.
He called little Arch over to the side
lines, surveyed him carefully from
head to foot, which was not a very
extensive survey at that, and duly in
formed him that he was, from that
moment, on the G. W. U. pitching
staff.
And he was exactly that. H's sud
den rise to hurling fame in collegiate
ball and Virginia League competition
has passed beyond the realm of news.
He tossed for the highly successful
American Legion team of Alexandria
and put the Charlottesville delega
tion on the map of the Old Dominion
State.
When the Nationals' boss man, Mr
Griffith, witnessed a two-hit victory
against the strong University of Rich
mond outfit, he thereupon homestead
ed a claim upon Mrs. Scrivener's little
boy—and that's the story of how he
happens to be teething on shrimp
down in the land of high taxes and
low bridge.
Taking on Weight.
GRIFF was somewhat dismayed by
the youngster's undersized phys
ique. so he launched him on a
fattening-up campaign. In one year
he has gained 18 pounds and stretched
an inch, but now Arch himself has
become feverish over the "get-big
and-go-places" idea, and bogs himself
with gallons of cream, tons of butter
and acres of potatoes. He has one
slogan ever in his mind—"It's stamina
I'm after." And if you knew Arch,
you'd know he will achieve that
stamina in large hunks. He seems to
have the heart, head and will to be
come a big leaguer.
But best of all right now. he has
something on the horsehide and a
great natural tossing style. There is
no Jerk in his delivery, just a smooth
combination of muscle and timing and
a complete follow-through. Griff and
Bucky stand and watch the young
rook go through his paces. The
former says little, but there is a tell
tale twinkle back of the white bushy
canopy under the brim of his hat.
The new manager nods to a nearby
scribe and says: "Another Tommy
Bridges—well, 111 be doggoned."
PLAY FOR WORMESLEY
Benefit Basket Card On Tonight.
Olmsted Buys 100 Tickets.
For the benefit of Benny Wonnes
ley, ill former sandlot base ball player
and bowler, an attractive basket ball
double-header will be staged tonight
in the Heurich gym. Maryland A. C.
meets Miller Furniture at 8 o'clock,
and at 9 St. Mary's Celtics and Olm
sted Grill face.
Bert Olmsted has bought 100 tickets
and distributed them among mem
bers of the Boys' Club of Washington.
The admission charge is 35 cents.
AWAITING NAVY QUINTET.
Fans at Duke and William and
Mary are awaiting the Invasion of
the Navy basket ball team led by
Buzs Borries and Dusty Dornin. The
Middies play at Durham Friday night
and Williamsburg Saturday evening
in their first post-season trip to any
sector.
FIOBE HIGH BOLLEB.
Houston Flore took the honors In
the Petworth Singles Bowling League,
rolling a 125 game and SSI set, en
abling him to blank Mickey Harrison
and tie Lou Adler for third plao·.
Boss Bucky Looks 'Em Over
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BILOXI, Mise., March β.—Stanley Raymond Harris, new-old manager
of the Senators, here U seen In characteristic attitude behind the batting
cage at the ball park here Inspecting the deliveries of the Washington
pitching candidate·. Harris terms his fledglings the "best looking bunch
of young pitchers he ever has aeen In a training camp."
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BASE BAILERS TO MEET.
Organization of the newly formed
United States Government Base Ball
League Will be furthered at a meet
ing tomorrow night, at Room 5232,
new Justice Department, at 8 o'clock.
Bureau of Investigation, N. R. A,
Treasury, P. W. A. and Federal Hous
mg Administration have indicated
their intention of competing and
other Government teams wishing to
join should be represented.
Proposed Basket
Changes Popular
Special Dispatch to The 8tar.
Annapolis, Md., March 6 —in
the basket ball game played
last night at Annapolis be
tween St. John's and Western
Maryland, and won by the former.
35 to 3*. the first half was played
under the proposed rules, which
eliminate the jump after scoring
and also the pivot play.
The new plan worked smoothly
and was voted a success by a large
majority of those present. It also
was approved by Paul Menton,
leading basket ball authority of
the State, who was referee.
Il« IN TRIM
US THEY REPORT
Their Fitness Is Pleasing
to Johnson—Yankees Try
Hoag at Third Base.
By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEAN S —Manager
Walter Johnson is pleased
with the way his Cleveland
Indians are turning up at
training camp, their poundage down
near normal.
Even the veteran third baseman,
Willie Kamm, said he was feeling
better this year than "in several
Springs."
"It looks," Johnson said, "as if
these fellows have been thinking seri
ously about our chances during the
Winter."
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Myril Hoag
has been trying for several years
to get a regular outfield job with
the New York Yankees. Now he's
taking a whirl at third base and may
make the grade.
"I'm just experimenting with Hoag,"
says Manager Joe McCarthy. "Maybe
he'll be all right as an inflelder.
"I'm going to keep him there for a
while, anyway, and see."
FORT MYERS, Fia.—With a first
casualty of the season in their
camp, the Philadelphia Athletics
took a day of rest today preparatory
to resuming their series with the
Yanigans.
In a lively game between the two
teams the Yanigans took a 7-5 lacing
yesterday from the regulars and
Charley Moss, Yanigan right fielder,
suffered a split thumb while playing
backstop.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.—Babe Ruth
apparently has an eye on the
house as well as one on the busi
ness at hand.
The Braves training camp was clut
tered with spectator*—an enviable
number of them.
"If we have crowds like that for
our exhibition games," Ruth observed
to Secretary Cunningham, "it would
give us a nice real start."
He added that he intended playing
Saturday against the Cincinnati Reds
at Tampa.
SARASOTA, Fla.—Byron Humphries,
rookie pitcher at the Red Sox
camp, who spent last season with
the Joplin club, has run into a bit of
bad luck.
Humphries reported his right arm,
the throwing member, a little sore,
and was ordered to a few days' rest.
Humphries is fearful of losing his
place among the ambitious youngsters
who are trying to attract favorable
attention from Manager Joe Cronin.
WEST PALM BEACH Fla.—John
ny Burnett, hard-hitting in
fielder the Browns acquired
from Cleveland, is proving one of
Manager Rogers Hornsby's biggest
problems.
The Browns need his punch, but
Burnett's fielding is far from finished.
Hornsby again today watched the
former Indian closely In an effort to
Improve bis fielding.
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THE SPÔRTLÎGHTΙ
Sports World Is Ever Gay With Color
Despite Passing of Glamorous Stars.
BY GRΑΧΤΙ.AND RICF
THOSE who have been mourn-j
lng the passing of Dempsey
and Ruth—the days of Hag en
and Tiiden as champions— ;
those who have been asking for more
color in sports-have little complaint
left for 1935.
Ruth is about through as a player,
but the Dean family will supply its
share for base ball. The two brothers
this season should be good for winning
50 games, although many ball players
figure this is too high after their big
year in 1934.
Dizzy is one of the most color
ful of all ball players, because
there is nothing synthetic about
his rainbow tinting. Every move he
makes is natural—not planned in
advance for any effect.
There also is plenty in the way of
color connected with Mickey Coch
rane, the high-strung mandarin of ]
the Tigers—to say nothing of School- ·
boy Rowe, Ducky Medwick, Pepper
Martin and several others.
The same goes for boxing, with Max
Baer ruling the top roost. No one
ever can complain of Baer's drabness
or his somber tones.
Pew heavyweights ever have stirred
up as many arguments or started as
much turmoil as Baer has started in
his first season as head man.
His willingness to fight or clown
4 or 10 rounds against all comers
has been something different.
Baer will accommodate any oppo
nent who wants to start getting se
rious or rough in his exhibitions. If
his opponent doesn't care about taking
a hard punch, then Baer will put on
a show.
What About Golf?
GOLF has no complaint to make
along the line of colorful per
formers. The old Halg is still
around, giving a show every now and
then, even when he isn't winning.
In a recent tournament I saw him
turn to a big gallery with this remark,
as he faced a 50-foot downhill putt:
"I'll have to sink this one because I
don't want to be embarrassed by miss
ing a 2-footer in front of this crowd."
And the putt dropped In, to the
gallery's roar.
Bobby Jones will be back in action
again at Augusta early in April in one
of the main tournrments of the year.
And the field this time will.be even
faster than it was a year ago.
As far as color goes, show me a
more colorful performer than Tommy
Armour, the silver fox. Or Bobby
Cruickshank.
"Did you ever know," Armour asked
me recently, "that Bobby Cruickshank
was one of the greatest all-around
athletes that Scotland ever had? He
was brilliant at several games, espe
cially at boxing, where at 130 pounds
he stood at the top."
Armour is not cnly a great golfer,
but he has an interesting personality,
a quick, keen, biting tongue that
spares no one when he has an opinion
to oSer which he believes is right.
Gene Sarazen is another with plenty
in the way of color, and the same goes
for Lawson Little, the United States
and British amateur champion—·
slashing hitter who catches the imme
diate fancy of the crowd.
Another Entry.
IN LOOKING for color you can also
turn to little Helen Hoerger. the
5-year-old diving star from Coral
Gables.
No one expects to see a showman or
showwoman at the age of 5—but Helen
Hoerger has a personality that reaches
the crowd at first sight.
In the first place, she has all the
poise and confidence of a veteran.
In a one-piece bathing nit,
about the sise of a small nap
kin. she looks like a little spar
row that has Jest been plucked.
But when she stands at the end
of the 34-foot diving board in the
presence of 4,000 or more spectators—
look· clamly around—waits to aee that
she has the crowd'· undivided atten
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tion—and then makes her dive—you
get an eyeful of personality that was
learning how to walk four years ago.
"Helen «-as swimming when she
was 11 months old," her mother told
me. That Is what you might call a
fairly young start.
In about five years the same young
Helen will be hard to beat in any
diving competition for women. She
not only has fine form now. but all the
confidence of Dlrzy Dean or Max
Baer.
What Is Color?
THIS question has been asked many
times. There is no answer. It
is a personality that registers—
that catches the crowd's interest and
holds its attention.
A great star may have little color
little crowd appeal. Such a star may
be mechanically perfect, or close to
perfection—and yet lack that some
thing which is more on the human
side.
Many great ball players lack color. |
But no one has to ask about it when
a Ruth, a Dempsey, a Hagen. a Baer
or a Dizzy Dean steps into the middle
of the picture and tongues begin '
chattering.
Color may be composed of
human frailties as well as
human virtue*. And often the
frailties, or the faults, add more
to the color scheme than the
virtue· do.
For the average human being Isn't I
very close to being flawless, or per- j
feet—and he knows It.
(Coprrlfht 1935. by North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
ENGLISH-AMERICAN
POLO REVIVAL SEEN
Change in Rule Governing Cup
Would Permit Yankees to In
By the Associated Press.
EW YORK, March 6.—Polo en
thus lasts foresaw today a revival
of Interest In international com
petition as a result of a radical amend
ment in the rules governing play for
the West Chester Challenge Cup.
Announcement was made yesterday
that future matches for the cup would
be played alternately in England and
the United States, disregarding a pro
vision in the deed of gift which speci
fied that the matches should be played
in the country holding the trophy.
As a result, negotiations are under
way for a renewal of the international
series between the United States and
England in Great Britain next year.
If they go through, the matches prob
ably will be played in June under the
auspices of the Hurlingham Commit
tee, ruling body of the sport In Eng
land.
The United States has held the cup
ever since 1921. Great Britain's last
invasion was made in 1930.
"Y" SEXTETS IN GAME.
Business Girls of the Y. W. C. A.
will meet the Baltimore Sports Club
sextet in their second basket ball game
of the season Saturday at 4 o'clock in
the Y. W. gym at Seventeenth and Κ
streets. The D. C. girls won the first
game played In Baltimore, but ex
pect to encounter a stronger foe Sat
urday. Lucille Clifton is the ace
scorer of the Washington combination.
vade Next Year.
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Authorities Cognizant of
Problems and Likely to
Solve Them.
BY H. C. BYRD.
COLLEGE boxing, while about
to wind up an exceptionally
successful season, is getting
a gcod deal more criticism
among the inner circles that control
athletics in the various universities
than generally would even be thought
possible.
Considerable concern has been ex
pressed over certain aspects of boxing,
nnd. while not making any great fan
fare over it, not the least doubt exists
that serious efforts are being made to
preserve the sport and maintain it on
a high plane.
One of the serious objections In the
colleges is that some colleges seem
to be getting an unusual number of
boxers who have had a good deal of
experience in amateur fight rings.
This creates a situation where the
college that does not get such good
material must either not meet the
one that does or subject its men to
unfair competition.
Another thing, the college boxers
apparently are willing to throw eau
tion to the winds and fight with a
good deal more abandon than the
professionals, thus running greater
risk of more injury.
The third criticism mentioned rather
frequently, but which is never spoken
aloud, is that the college bouts are
beginning to draw a regular fight
crowd, which is very difficult to con
trol, from a standpoint of behavior
while a bout is in progress.
It is not known publicly as yet. but
at least one university in the Southern
Conference territory. Washington and
Lee. has about decided to drop boxing.
At the recent conference meeting, at
which schedules for all sports were
arranged, the Generals made no at
tempt to effect boxing meets for next
Winter, and said that their Faculty
and Athletic Committee were against
boxing, but that the students favored it.
Geiduatc Manager of Athletics Dick
Smim said. "I'm not authorized to
schedule any meets and the way It
s;ems now we shall not have a team."
Service Teams Never Meet.
IT IS rather significant that the
Army and Navy never meet in
boxing, about the only sport in
which they do not compete. No spe
cial reason has been given for this
failure to arrange boxing meets. And
none ever will be given publicly, but
both Army and Navy people say it
would not be intelligent to send Cadets
and Midshipmen into the ring against
one another, not with the high state
of rivalry between the two schools.
If boxing is to survive as a college
sport, criticisms as mentioned herein
must be considered seriously and
measures taken to meet them. How
ever, the very fact that those responsi
ble for college sports are cognizant
of the situation and already are work
ing among themselves to prevent any
untoward occurrences is a sign of a
rather healthy state of affairs in col
lege athletics generally.
In other words, the athletic direc
tors themselves are realizing more
and more with each passing year that
the keeping of intercollegiate athletics
on a high plane is their job and their
responsibility. As this feeling of re
sponsibility grows the caliber of inter
collegiate sports will be raised ac
cordingly.
BILLY CAVANAUGH, Army boxing
coach, has no superior anywhere
when it comes to building up an
aggressive spirit among his boxers.
There was never a moment in the meet
Saturday night at Maryland when
the Army men were not carrying the
fight to their opponents to the best
of their ability. Even when hit hard
and beaten back, they still bored In.
Cavanaugh is a fine type of coach.
The fact that he is looked upon with
real love by all his former team mem
bers, and by present charges as well,
is sufflcient to prove that.
Coach Harmony of Maryland fought
for three years at West Point under
Cavanaugh, and when the Army men
visited here last week the major part
of Harmony's interest was in "I want
to see Billy," which is a real tribute
to his old coach.
FOOT BALL players are tramping
the practice fields all over the
South right now and will con
tinue until they have worked out cer
tain principles and mechanical neces
sities for next season. In the Par
South most of the squads are about
ready to quit, but from North Carolina
on up the coast the work is just set
ting under way.
In the great majority of schools all
other sports are giving way to the
gridiron, and in some men who could
make varsity teams in other sports are
being kept at Spring practice for next
Fall's teams.
THE passing of Jimmie De Hart as
the result of an operation takes
from Southern foot ball one ef
its most colorful figures. De Hart, oft
the field as fine a chap as one would
care to know, on the field he threw
his whole heart and soul Into the
game and w as hard to get along with.
De Hart was a good coach, a splendid
fellow, and the game will mis· him
a good deal.
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