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TECHNICAL
IN TITLE
COMBAT
On Short End Today for An
nual Football Battle
With Central
By ROSS CONKLIN
The last exhortations having
been made, Central and Technical,
their football teams, the faculty
and alumni, and the student
bodies, are preparing for one
grand assault in the Central High
School Stadium. The players
have been told what they already
knew intuitively namely, that
their most ancient and most worthy
foe is about to cast an evil spell
over them and the only way they
can prevent its influences is by
fighting, and scrapping, and snarl
ing and clawing. •
Last year the Blue and White of
Central presented a sorry spectacle
in the game against Technical.
Tech's husky warriors simply toyed
with a foe that usually tested the
mettle of the best there was.
This year Central will go into the
game with the odds slightly in its
favor, but a scoreless tie would not
be surprising. Central has one
weapon that Tech possesses not and
that is a capable dropkicker. One
little boot over the well protected
Kai line may settle for the time
ing the supremacy of ihe schools.
No Tech team is ever licked in
advance. Happy Hardell has an
eleven this year that is slow to
swing into action, but which
winds up with a flourish. Tech’s
whole scheme of offense and de*
sense is based upon weight and
power. The backs plunge low
and hard and the line moves
slowly but surely. That may
mean that the Central boys will
wear themselves down and will
blunt their sharpest instruments
against a stone wall.
Mike Kelly has announced that
he would again employ George
Roberts* educated puppies as his
chief offensive weapon. Roberts’
kicking ought to keep the Tech
backs hustling. They aer those long,
lazy looking spirals as deceptive as
a magician.
Ever since he attended Knute
Rockne’s school at Notre Dame,
Hardell has had a penchapt for
the overhead game. He has learned
the secret of Rockne’s great system
and who knows but that, he may
spring it today.
Central* meeting Technical is al*
ways interesting. This year it is
more than that, it is tantalizing.
MiRWGRID
SQUAD PREPS
FOR N. C. 0.
North Carolina University is go
ing to run into a maddened football
team Saturday when the Maryland
University eleven is faced in the
Baltimore stadium. Maryland has
gotten two setbacks this fall that
were not looked for and it seems to
be just the luck of the Tar Heels
to run into that spirit of revenge.
Maryland’s cripples may be round*
ed into shape for the game. Cap
tain Supplee and his nose are again
good friends, and Fred Klnkous,
hefty fuPback. is in splendid shape.
Kirk Besley, last year's clever little
quarterback, is probably not to start
the game and it is doubtful if he
Will play at all.
Maryland may -try some drop
kicking against North Carolina.
Virginia Poly defeated the College
Park team with a boot, and there
have been occasions when a drop
kicker could have rung up some
points.
TEX STOVALL A WINNER
IN CITY CLUB’S SHOW
Tex Stovall, Washington’s prom
ising young middleweight, defeated
Nick Bass, of Baltimore, m the
e ght-round contest featuring the
City Club’s first monthly smoker
and athletic night. Stovall carried
too many guns for his opponent.
Eagles Hold Drill
The Anacostia Eagles have order
ed a practise tonight on their Good
Hope road field. They play the
Fort Humphry team Sunday and
knowing that the soldiers play |
rugged football, the coaches of the j
Eagles want their charges to per- I
feet their plays. -
DiEste Asks Drill
Coach DiEste has asked his
Park View basketeers to turn out
every Monday night in the Wilson
Normal gym.
LAUREL
RACES
Laurel, Maryland
FIRST RACE, 1:45 P* M.
Special trains leave Union Station
(Baltimore A Ohio R. Rj, 12.25,
12A5, 12:45 P. M. each day. return,
tag hnwsdietily after the races.
CENTRAL HIGH FAVORED TO DEFEAT TECH RIVALS IN BIG GAME
WASHINGTON TIMES SPORTS
REMARKABLE PHOTO OF. ACTION ON GRIDIRON-STANFORD BEATS OPPONENTS TO PUNCH
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The way to win football games, some wise coacher
once remarked, is to beat the other team to the punch—
to break up their plays before they get started.
Here is a pictorial example of that very thing—dem
onstrated by ‘Top” Warner’s high-stepping Stanford
eleven, out in the land of sunshine.
Speaking of action, you’ve got it here. Note how the
HEAVY SCORING
ITWISUIiE
JOBEBtBE
By R. D. THOMAS
Something akin to the home-run
epidemic in baseball has taken hold
in the game of bowls, locally.
A 1,700-team set, once a sensation,
attracts a fleeting glance In the
daily records.
Only passing notice is given a
team game of 600, a score that
once caused duckpin observers to
gasp.
To make his name stand out, and
that for only a day, a bowler must
shoot a game better than 170 or
break into the 400 set class.
Four years ago, it is recalled,
duckpin dopesters discussed the
possibility of an 1,800 team se..
Before another season was finished
several such scores were in the
book and more have been recorded
since.
When Ray Chapin six or seven
years ago carved the triangle for
a set of 434 it was said he had
achieved the near impossible. But
along came Lee Brown and topped
Chapin's mark by one pin in a
Masonic League tournament.
And now both of these really
remarkable scores have been mini
mized by another. Within the last
week Harry Dixon, of the Eco
nomics team of the Agricultural
League, turned out a set of 445
at the Coliseum.
Chapin and Brown were experts
when they won fame. Dixon was
regarded as an ordinal performer,
and this fact Is significant in com
paring the home-run boom and the
heavy scoring at bowls.
Ball players that rarely hit hom
ers before the birth of the lively
ball and bleacher-shortened fields
smacked them right jnerrily after
ward.
And hundreds of bowlers are
shooting scores today that are big
compared with old standards.
Where the big score shooters could
be named individually before they
are now counted in flocks.
The reason for this change is
easily found. It resides in the fact
that Washington in the last sev
eral years has come to be the best
equipped town in a bowling way
in the country. This is an obser
vation made by traveling men who
bowl.
No longer do Washington pin
shooters play their game on rut
ted, dirty, untrue alleys. Nor do
they shoot at lop-sided, broken pins
with egg-shaped balls.
Competition tn the bowling busi
ness has made for firsi-class equip
ment, and proper equipment has
given the bowler • a better reward
for his skill.
Moreover, the splendid conditions
in general that prevail in Wash
ington bowling establishments have
raised the social level of the game
and attracted more playera.
Why Go to Africa For
Hunting When It’s
Right at Hand
Pennsylvania is the greatest
hunting ground in the United
States, and each year the kill
exceeds 500 bears, 6,000 deer,
600,000 grout'e and more than
5,000,000 rabbits. Licenses to
hunt in the State are taken out
by 650,000 annually.
HILLTDPIIB
PREPS FOR
NEXT FOE
With games scheduled afealnet
Lehigh, Centre, Fordham and the
Marines, Georgetown is settling
down to hard work this week, feel
ing that plenty of glory still can
be gained out of the prpesent cam
paign, despite the set-back suffered
Saturday at the hands of Bucknell.
Saturday’s debacle is now his
tory. There is no disposition to
grouse about it at the Hilltop.
Bucknell won. The critics were
unanimous in declaring that George
town was the better team and un
doubtedly would have won had the
weather not played such a fiend
ish part in the proceedings, and
the statistics of the contest show
that local combination undoubtedly
packed more power, but the game
is now in the record books, the
winning streak of the Blue and
Gray has been rudely shattered but
by a single point, and Little’s
charges must wait until next fall
to obtain revenge for Saturday.
King College, the scrappy little
eleven from Bristol, Tenn., is the
attraction here Saturday. The Dixie
eleven amazed the football world
with the stupendous scores it ran
up against opponents for three
years or more. In consequence,
Georgetown booked King for a
game last fall. The invaders were
defeated, but only after putting up
a plucky argument. They have
enough strength to push the Hill
toppers somewhat Saturday, but not
enough to cause any doubt as to
the outcome.
No changes are expected in Coach
Little’s line-up this week. The
varsity played splendid football
against Bucknell despite the terri
ble conditions and none of the reg
ulars slipped enough jn any respect
to threaten his hold on his position.
Coach Little, with a wealth of
backfield material, will continue co
rotate his ball carriers, but the
first string quartet of Gormley,
Hagerty, O’Neil and Plansky will
remain his chief dependence.
Still in Hospital
Harvey McLelland, the Chicago
Americans’ veteran infielder, is still
an invalid in a hospital at Cynth
iana, Ky., his home town.
Intereettonal Mewsrwl Phot*.
white-jersied Stanford stalwarts have filtered through the
line to hurry the Southern California picker. In this par
ticular the giant'tackle, nearest the kicker, was just a
second too late. The punter got the ball away, and you
can see it sailing along just over the outstretched fingers
of the Stanford lineman.
WILLS WALLOPS
RING RIVAL
AT WILL
_ NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 27.—‘De
nunciation of the Harry Wills-Floyd
Johnson bout here last night was
expressed on all sides in sporting
circles today. It was the consen
sus that it was a “bad match’’—
one that never should have been
made.
Ten thousand dissatisfied fans
saw the negro heavyweight, chal
lenger of Jack Dempsey, slaughter
the lowan. Wills won in the first
round. He battered the helpless
Johnson all over the ring and had
him out on his feet on the ropes
when Johnsoom’s seconds, after
two minutes and two seconds of
fighting, tossed in the towl.
Johnson never had a ghost of a
chance. From the tap of the bell
the big negro started after his vic
tim. Wills hooked a left to John
son's head after the lowan led
weakly and missed. As Johnson
came close to Wills, the negro pull
ed him to him and smashed him
twice in the ribs with hard rights.
Johnson gasped.
When they clinched again Wills
doubled Johnson’s left arm back of
the lowan’s body and drove a ter
rific right to the heart. Johnson’s
knees trembled. In another clinch
Wills rocked Johnson with right
and left uppercuts.
By this time Johnson was wobly
and could hardly hit back. After
another mix-up. Wills corwded
Johnson to the ropes, had him
hanging on, and was finishing him
when the towl was thrown in.
The sudden ending of the bout
drew a roar of disapproval from the
fans who crowded the Sussex ave
nue armory.
Johnson was very nervous from
the moment he entered the ring.
Wills was calm, collected and ruth
less. During the bout Johnson pro
tested several times, saying: He's
holding my arms.”
BECOMING GIANT COSTS
FARRELL HIS DIPLOMA
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.—Play
ing with the New York Giants, be
fore he had been handed his
diploma cost Eddie Farrell, 1925
baseball captain at Penn, his letter.!
This was disci'sed yesterday, when
the Athletic Council’s ist of awards
was made known. E even players
won their letters.
Farrell, who starred for the Red
and Blue on the diamond through
out the season, joined the New
York Giants before the commence
ment exercises at Penn, and broke
into the major league team’s line up.
He returned to college fcr his
degree, and then immediately re
joined the Giants.
Reds Making Money
The Cincinnati Reds have not
had a bad year financially since
THINKS NIAYRS
ENTITLED TO
VICTORY
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By ERNEST A. BOWERSOX.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 27.—Lefty
Lew Mayrs, latest local feather
weight hope, gave away three
pounds, floored his rival for a
count of nine in the fourth session
and apparently outfought him most
of the rest of the way, yet received
only a draw in his twelve-rounder
with Goldie Ahearn, Washington,
In the old Fourth Regiment Armory
last night. Promoted by the Olym
pia Athletic Club, the battle drew
only a sparse gathering of fans.
With longer reach and smart,
Ahearn locked the willing Balti
morean in the clinches and used
his greater strength to toss him
around, much to the delight of uhe
many fans here from the Capital
for the whirl. But these tactics
did not Impress the unbiased spec
tators, who thought that Lew’s
aggressiveness, his cleaner punch
ing and his better work at close
quarters easily entitled him to the
award.
It would have been a splendid
melee had Ahearn elected to make
it so. Mayrs, from the first couple
rounds, carried the milling to tne
visitor and tried with might and
main to make it a hot skirmish at
close quarters.
Ahearn, however, after using a
stiff right jab occasionally follow
ed by a right to the stomach—his
southpaw might as well have been
left at home —too frequently fell
Into a clinch, where he clutched
Mayr's vaunted portside fist as
frantically as a drowning man
grabbing for a life preserver.
In the eventful fourth session,
proceeding a rather brisk rallv,
Mayrs lurched out with a swift
right hook to the body and followed
up in lightning-like fashion with a
left to the jaw. Ahearn dropped
to the canvas claiming ho bad been
struck foul, but Referee Buck Alex
ander failed to heed his pleas and
began counting.
At nine the Washingtqpian had
arisen and fought back much un
like a boxer who had stopped a
damaging blow in the restricted
zone. /
“LOOKING FOR WORK,”
DOYLE DEFEATS ZIVIC.
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 27.—Paul
Doyle, touted as a “broken-down
old man looking for work,” flored
Jack Zivic, crack local lightweight,
In the fourth round of their 10-
round fight, and won the referee’s
decision after it had gone the limit.
Motive turned to H
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But on three other occasions in that game the kicker
kas not so fortunate. Three times Stanford broke through
to block California punts—and the result was victory.
The wise coach knew his stuff: “The way to win foot
ball games is to break through and stack the other fellow’s
play before he gets started.”
Mere Battle Song is
Not Enough to
Bring Wins
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 27.
Harvard wants a new battle cry
for football victory, and Ed
ward Ballantine, instructor in
music, offers a prize of $lO for
the best words for it. Professor
Ballantine has written a num
ber, “The Harvard Stadium
March,” and needs a lyric for it.
The competition is open to all
past and present Harvard nfen,
and free copies of the music are
offered competitors.
DUNDEE WILL ACCEPT
DEFI FROM BRETONNEL
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Jphnny
Dundee will go before the State
Athletic Commission today and ao
cept the defi of the French authori
ties on behalf of Fred Breton nel,
provided the commission can get
a certif cate that Bretonnel can
make the lightweight limit.
Dundee was matched to meet
Bretonnel in Paris last year, but
took his unannounced departure for
America almost on the eve of the
bout, suffering a suspension both
here and abroad.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—John P.
McGraw today laid the Giants-Red
trade rumor to rest when he said
that all it had ever amounted to
was- an offer from Garry Hermann
of two Cincinnati infielders. Since
neither Adolfo Luque or "Bubbles”
Hargrave, the players who were to
have come to New York, are In
fielders, there seems to have been
a mistake somewhere. McGraw
says he does not look for any
trading activity In baseball until
the league meetings in December.
At any rate, if there is any he
will not take part in them, as he
is leaving for Florida within the
next few days to look after his
real estate interests there and
perchance make some arrange
ments about the Giants’ training
camp.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1925.
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Eastern Backs
Candidates
for Great
Honors -
By DAVIS J. WALSH
International News Service
For the first time in several
seasons, the East may have a few
plausible backfield candidates to
offer when the All-American
plums are distributed. This sec
tion, which gave Jim Thorpe,
Eddie Mahan, Brickley, Charley
Barrett and other .immortals to
the game, hasn’t produced a real
All-American backfield star since
Glenn Killinger graduated from
Penn State three or four years
ago. Koppisch, of Columbia, got
the Camp vote last year, but was
far from a foolproof halfback.
The backs of national note have
come from the Middle West, fea
turing Grange and the Four Horse
men of Notre Dame; the South,
where Wyckoff, of Georgia Tech,
has held forth for three seasons,
and from California and Stanford.
| Now. however, the Eastern ball
• runner seems to be coming back.
Pennsylvania uncovered a fine pair
1 in the Yale game, Kreuz and Rog
ers. Yale also has a couple of can
didates, while Wilson, Hewitt and
Buell, of the Army, are sectional
leaders, even at this immature mo
ment. Wilson was a co-star with
Killinger at Penn State and should
know what it is all about by this
time.
Shapley, of the Navy, Is above
the average. So is Keefer, of
Brown, not to mention Ober
lander, of Dartmouth, and Pease,
of Columbia. Many thought Pease
was more deserving than Kop
pisch of recognition last year.
Gustafson, of Pittsburgh, can also
join the line forcing on the left.
Carlin, of W. and J., and Foley, of
Syracuse, are very likely entries.
This brings the issue down to a
man who has been around and
about for years, receiving general
recognition for his greatness, but
escaping Official notice, or being ig
nored by same. The writer refers
to Tryon, of Colgate. If ever he is
to come Into his own, Tryon must
do it this season, since it is to be
his last. Gebhardt, of Lafayette,
also is about due.
Princeton has a good back in
Slagle, but Harvard has nothing,
at least at this moment. It has
one Miller, a 200-pounder, who has
bettered 10 seconds on the track,
but Miller, either through non
support or a frank lack of ability,
has yet to astound or even inter
est the natives.
However, the day Is early and
the field large. Anything may
happen in November. Things
usually do.
There is little likelihood that
the East will produce another
Thorpe or Mahan for another gen
eration, not to mention the season
of 1925. But, with the present
caliber of material on hand, it has
better than an even chance of
turning out a really representative
back for the first time since Kil
linger operated.
AD STONE IS A WINNER,
THOUGH HE HURTS HAND
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.—Ad
Stone, the “Fighting Marine,*’ is
nursing an injured right hand to
day, received in the second round
of his ten-round battle last night
with Tomy Loughran, the clever
light heavyweight, in which Stone
won the judge’s approval on ac
count of his aggressiveness.
From the time they shook hands
in the first round until the tap of
the final bell, the men exchanged
punches, with Stone forcing the
issue at all times-
Many Soccer Games
There were five games on the
school soccer league. Maury de
feated Blow, 1 to 0; and —other
scores were: Brightwood Park, 4,
Gage, 1; Blair-Hayes, 2, Ludlow, 10;
West, 1, Hubbard, 0; Kingsman, 1,
Wheatley, 1.