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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-17
RAIL WAY RELIEF
BOWLING LEAGUE

BY winning their entire sets last week
the Eastern and the Columbia teams of
the Railway Relief Association Bowling
League are now tied for first honors. with
sixteen games won and eight lost, with
percentage of .666. Both of these teams
have made a grand fight for the leader
ship of this league during the past three
weeks, both having displayed some very
good bowling against their opponents.
The Mechanical, who was leading the
others for a short while, is only one game
behind the leaders. and with a little more
fighting spirit should again be seen at the
top. The Track and Roadway and the
Southern quints should also be considered
close contenders, as they are by no means
out Of the race. Each of the teams has
played twenty-four games up to date
Whitney Of the General Office has the best
average in the league, with III; Wynn
koop of Eastern, second, with 113 and w.
Cornell third with Ill
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CLOSE RACE OF
COLONIAL BOWLERS
Pioneers and Knickerbockers
Are Tied for First
Place.

Since the latest publication of the aver
ages of the Colonial Bowling League the
race has grown to be a more interesting
affair. with the first two teams fighting 1t
out for the leadership. These teams.
the Pioneers and the Knickerbock-
ers. are tied for first place with the same
percentage of 1857. but the former team
has participated In three more games than
the Knickerbockers and therefore is given
the preference of first honors. The Pho
neers during the past five or six weeks
have done some very consistent pin top
ping. having won seven games out Of the
last twelve played. and If they can keep
up this kind of skillful bowling they will
surely be hard team to Gust from their
present position. The Knickerbockers.
who are second in the race. have also
done some very good bowling. and if they
should win the next three games will
hold the lead by one game. The Pilgrims,
who are next in line and who were lead
ing the league the first part of the sea-
son. have fallen into bad slump, having
dropped so per cent of their games since
the last publication of the averages. The
Virsinians are holding the cellar position,
with only two games won to their credit.
In the team average the Pioneers are
Just as much in evidence as they are In
the team standing. being far in advance
of the other teams with an average Of .S18
for twenty-one games. Akers is the best
individual bowler of the league. with an
average Of .1SS, while Thomas is second.
with .1s4. and Hartman third. with .1SO.
Hartman is the best strike maker, with 81
to his credit. while Henderson has the
most number of spares with 9o. and Jones
holds the highest game score, with 2o4.
Following are the statistics:
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been making much within the last few
weeks of the death of Griswold. the Yale
stroke, and the reported breakdown of
J. A. Rector of Virginia on account OF
heart trouble. These two Incidents,
whether founded on fact or not, have
given occasion for some harsh criticism
of sports which call for severe effort
and produce a great strain on the heart.
1t will be noted that those who arraigu
athletics the most bitterly because it
produces enlargement of the heart are
not. as a rule men who have had ex-
tended experience in athletics. Physicians
who have been athletes themselves in
variably testify to the benefits derived
from athletic competition. Their. con-
tention Is that enlargement of the heart
is not necessarily injurious to ones
health. and i'll substantiation of this
point to a great number of experiments
to prove that instead of shortening the
life athletics tend toward longevity.
In regard to the case of Griswold. the
records showed that during his training
he passed with unusually high marks in
all the physical tests he underwent. And
even a week before his death his health
was excellent. In fact, there did not APP
pear any evidence that his death had any
connection with his athletics. On top
of this comes the announcement that
Rector is once more preparing to train
for sprintfng.
NJ c. Murphy of the University of Penn
sylvania. who trained the American
signal success. is pretty well informed
himself on the subject of medicine. hav-
ing taken a course in it during his first
stay at Pennsylvania He has very little
respect for the opinions of doctors who
are forever harping on the heart
trouble of athletics and making predic-
tons that continued competition will kill
them. In this connection Murphy delights
to tell of incident which occurred
while he was at Yale
One day said Murphy. "a student
whose parents were very wealthy. came
to me saying that his family physician
had given him but few months to live
on account of his anema. IT was not
unusual for him to fall i'm a faint while
taking only slight exercise. | suggested
that since he had TO die anyway he live
and work for short time under my di-
rection. He held back at first. but later
consented. | started him on a simple
diet and short walks impressing on him
the need of living close to nature. This
simple open air life worked wonders with
him. and in few months he was able
to take vigorous exercise without distress.
and before he graduated from Yale he
was one OF the best half milers | had
That was fifteen years ago. and he isn't
dead yet. but is enjoying life in New
York
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WISER TO LEAD.
Props Put Finishing Touches on
Campaign Plans.

Yesterday afternoon the Blue and Gray
Props put the finishing strokes on their
map Of campaign for the winning of the
interscholastic point trophy at the federal
games when they elected their captain
and arranged match for their relay.
From now the men may go on in their
training without bothering about any
thing excepting to win the District cham
pionship on the night of February 20
The man who was chosen to lead the
cinder path representatives or the embryo
collegianS answers to the name of Wieser.
and is we'll known as a capable athlete
in local school boy circles. He halls from
Marietta. Ohio, and came to Georgetown
three years ago last September. Although
small and inexperienced at the time he
made an excellent trial for the junior
Prep relay team which proved SO speedy
in the Georgetown meet of 1905. In the
fall CT the same wear he was one OF the
strongest men on the junior Prep foot
ball team, and also played first base on
the base ball team in the spring of 1907.
In between he ran on the junior Prep
relay team. The following year was also
spent on the Junior side of the Prep de-
partment, but last fall Wieser shifted to
the senior section, and Immediately came
into the limelight as punter on the grid
iron squad. In December he started to
play on the basket ball qunt butt gave
that up to come out for track. Ever since
practice began Coach Smith has had his
eve on MN 1Or one cOlIct VI the y,
and his running has not only attracted
the attention of his schoolmates but also
that of the varsity men who have
watched him at work. Being a hard
worker himself and popular among his
fellows. he should be able to have very
pleasant as we'll as successful career as
leader of the Props.
Behind him Wieser has the likeliest
looking bunch of material seen wearing
the colts colOrs in long time. To be~in
with there will be Dahill Rodriguez
Brennan, O'Brien. Graham, Leishear,
Murphy Carter and Laralde to choose a
relay team from. and it is tipped off by
couple of wise ones, who have seen
these men in training, that they look like
sure winners. Besides the relay Dahili
will enter the sprnts. and comparing his
speed with that of Jack Martin. a varsity
star, he should be able to pull out a
couple of points at the Olympic revival
and the Blue and Gray games Weiser
himself will go in for the DO. while the
other candidates will be divided among
the longer runs. kerwin is putting the
shot every day under the supervision of
Prof. Joyce. and little by little lie is
increasing his distance. At present he is
showing it forty-one feet
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HIGHEST AVERAGE MAN on EACH TEAM.
PIONEERS TAKE ALL.
Three Exciting Games Rolled With
the Knickerbockers.

Three of the best games of tenpins ever
witnessed on the Palace alleys were
rolled last night by the Pioneers and the
Knickerbockers of the Colonial Bowling
League. The former team captured all
three after hard struggle. These two
teams have been fighting it out for the
leadership of the league and each game
meant an advantage over the other The
first game went to the Pioneers by fifteen
pins; the second was a still harder strug-
gle for the winners by three pins. but
the third game. which was the best OF
the evening. resulted in tie, and it re-
quired two roll-offs to decide the contest,
which went TO the winners by one pin
Kicker of Pioneers captured the high
game score with 20 in his last game.
Score:
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Stamford Good at Rugby.

NEW YORK. January 16.-That the
coast universities of our country have
made wonderful strides at rugby foot
ball has been brought to the notice of the
college world with startling clearness
by the victory of the Leland Stanford
team over the Vancouver pigskin chasers.
a noteworthy and decidedly prominent
feature of the match is that the Cali
fornians' win brings to this country the
handsome CooperKeith trophy. emblem
attic of 1.-THE International rugby foot ball
championship OF the Pacific coast. The
Cooper-keith cup is one of the few
trophies that have been offered for in
ternational collegiate competition. and
the fact that 1t was won by fifteen
cardinal jerseyed players of Stanford
proves conclusively the giant strides
that the English game has made on the
coast.
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DISTRICT DUCKP|N
LEAGUE FIGURES
Marshall Sets Up New Totals
That Are Likely to
Stand.

The holiday slump seems to have passed
and the boys are once more back in form.
Belmonts got most OF the honors last
week. Michauds high set of 1854 was
broken by Marshall of the same team,
who rolled the high set of 1858 and which
Is very apt to hold good for the balance
of the season 1t appears as if the soli-
taire pin tournament which was held last
week at the Royal has increased the
single pin and spare chances, as more
spares were made this week than last,
and several Individual averages were in
creased a point or two. Garrisons by
losing two games to Belmonts have drop
ped to third place and temporarily out
of the run for first honors. Royals and
Capitol Hills are running neck and neck
for the purse, with only slight adj
vantage of greater total of pins in the
Royals favor. Runners were unfortu-
nate Thursday night in dropping two
games to Resolutes. the last by single
pin. 511 to $40. The Runners made five
than did the Resolutes. but luck was
against Them Marshall of Belmonts
rolled high set for the week with the
remarkable run Of 123. 129. 116-122 2-3
average Chiswell and Hawksworth also
of Belmonts rolled good sets. 321 and 317
respectively. The teams second game Of
556 tied Royals for second high game and
came within one pin of Garrisons' high
game of 557.
Honor roll for week. high man on each
team:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 123, 40, 116-122 2-Y
Rodrick-Royals, 12a 1O6, 11F116
Sparrough-Sparroughs, lis, 1875, 96-115
Embellishments. 100, 40, 1O9-106 1-3
Al Fenton-Arlingtons. 81, 1o3. 1906.
w. Harler-Garrisons. So. 11S, 1O2-
102 %.
krieger-Eapitol Hills, o. 30 123-1ol I'd.
Observation-Disclosures. 81. %. 117-1O1 13.
Niehmeyer-Seremaders 81, 93. 113-1OO.
Elliott-Senators. 81, JOG. $3.50.
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GOLF TOURNEY OF
THE TIN WH|STLERS
Medal Play Handicap Four
Ball Foursome at
PinehurSt.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

PINEHURST, n. C., January 10
Medal play handicap four ball foursomes,
players selecting their own partners and
combined scores counting. provided a
novel contest in the third event in the
Tin Whistles tournament program, fifteen
pairs participating and pretty race tor
first place resulting.
DR.. G. J. Mckee of the Oakmont Club,
Pittsburg (S), and Andrew 1. Dreamer of
North Conway QO, led with card of
173 net, and c. l.. Becker and r. L.
Sproue, both of Boston leach -, sec
ond in It's, ten strokes ahead of their
nearest opponents, Silliman and Robson,
Coffey and Blackburn, who tied at lSj.
The scores:
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one III the IOilOWlIlS year he
pei formed with the Danville team and
also the strong aggregation from Martins
burg. an independent team. His excellent
playing with the latter nine attracted the
attention of the Detroit Americans and
he was taken south last spring on the
training trip with the league champs.
While south he received an injury to his
left side which prevented him from let
ting OUT and was the cause of his being
farmed out to the Grand Rapids organ
iZation.
Sterzer twirled wonderful ball for Man
ager loves outfit at the beginning of the
season. but fell off badly in the latter
part. This was due to his being over
worked as several of the pitching corps
were under the weather for better part
OF the season. The Grand Rapids team
opened the season in Evansville, and
Buck pitched the third contest of this
series, defeating Evansville ) TO !. Then
the team returned home and he twirled
the opening contest against the Terre
Haute aggregation, which resulted in his
second victory. The opposing team was
unable to score in this event. The fol-
lowing seven games that Sterzer pitched
resulted in his favor making a total OF
nine straight victories. The management
of the team did foolish thing then in
allowing SterZer to pitch two and three
times week after that He was going
at d splendid pace, but toward the end of
the season his pitching arm went to the
bad for the time being. SterZer stated
that he, like all other slab artists, had
his hoodoo. and this was his inability TO
land a Sunday game.
Although Sterzer's batting for the sea-
son was not very heavy, there were a few
who ranked below him. In the official
batting averages he is given credit for
playing in 50 games. at bat ll3 times,
scoring ii runs and landing IL safe
drives. This in the percentage column
gives him an average OF .1J0. In the
p.chsrS' fielding records lie took part
in 10 put-outs assisted 96 times and err
rored on Il occasions, giving him the per-
centage of .949. In the pitchers record
column he is given the percentage of
.,ts, having wen and lost IL games. He
faced l0o9 batters and was hit safely
ooS times which resulted i'm 100 runs.
He is credited with 142 strike-outs and
81 passes.
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NAVY YARD BOWLING
LEAGUE AVERAGES

Miscellaneous Shop has a comfortable
hold on first place in the Navy Yard
League with the Erecting Shop second
and the w. G.. c. Shop third. The Mis-
cellaneous Shop has the best team aver
age SAT.
Lusby heads the pin spillers in individ-
ual bowling. with an average of 1874 but
.has not rolled near as many games AS
the second best man, Lie, who has an
average Of 1Sn.
Bisselle OF the Miscellaneous Shop team
has high set. GA.
The following standings and averages
include WEDNESDAY : set:
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Banner Year for Rowing.

That this will be banner year for
rowing is indicated by the extraordinarily
large number of candidates who have
already reported for preliminary indoor
work at the various universities Colum-
bia, Yale and Wisconsin were the first
to begin practice on the machines. but
Harvard, pennsylvania. Syracuse and
Cornell have either started within the
last few days or will get under way
within the coming week. At not one OF
these institutions have less than seventy
five men started work from the first, and
at each the number of candidates has
been increasing daily. being well over the
1OV mark at several
All OF this betokens more interest than
usual in this sport. and it will be cause
for surprise II the various crews this
season are not we'll above the average
Crew managers have arranged a most at
tractive intercollegiate program. Harvard
has already agreed to meet Columbia
and Cornell on the water. in addition to
her annual race with Yale. Pennsylvania
will probably meet New York University
again, and may have a race with some
other college. Syracuse Is expected to
meet Annapolis, and the Navy will doubt
less have races with one or two other
college crews.
AS this is the year that Princeton has
promised 10 launch her shell in inter
collegiate rowing. every move the Tiger
authorities make will be closely scanned.
1t is almost certain that Princeton will
have one or two crews in the American
regatta the latter part OF May. But the
question which is agitating college circles
is whether Princeton will ask for admis-
sion to the Harvard ale regetta on the
Thames at New London or cast her lot
with the colleges, which meet annually TO
settle the aquatic supremacy at Pough-
keepsie
Princeton has given no indication as
yet with which regatta she will cast
her lot. There is no doubt that Yale
and Harvard are anxious to have the
Tigers go to New London. in spite of the
fact that it was said not so many years
ago that there was not room enough at
single race. Rowing is still in it's in
fancy at Tigertown. and the Orange and
Black cannot hope to make much of a
showing no matter in which regetta the
crew completes.
New York University. which had it's
first crew a year ago. will likely enter an
eight at Poughkeeps!e this year. The
Gothamites made quite a respecta BILE
showing at Philadelphia last spring
though what they will accomplish in
four mile race is problematical. If the
Navy secures consent to row at An
napolis. If Georgetown returns and New
York University and the University of
Washington also send Fights. the Pough-
keepsie regctta would have nine starters
even without Princeton.
Hitting at Athletics Again.
Opponents Of college athletics have
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Lineup and summary
Championship Swimming Meet.

The South Atlantic Association Of the
A. A. L. will hold a championship SWIM
ming meet at o'clock the evenings of
February Il and Is at the Baltimore
Athletic Club of Baltimore. The winners
of the many events which are scheduled
will be awarded gold and silver prizes.
The events are 100, 220 and 40 yard races,
an S0-yaId back stroke and d breast
stroke OF the same distance; a 16O-yard
relay race will prove an interesting affair
Medals will also he awarded for fancy
diving, plunge and polo.
The Washington branch Of the Y NJ. c.
A. and several other local athletic asso-
Citations will be represented at this meet
by some of the capitals expert swimmers.
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OLYMPIC PICTURES
AT FEDERAL GAMES

The complete story OF the London
Olympic games and the triumph of Amer
leans over all other athletes Of the world
will be graphically told In a series OF COL
ored steropticon slides and moving pic
In Convention Hall February 20. There
will be about seventy-five pictures in the
exhibition made from photographs taken
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EASY FOR MIDDIES.
Defeat Baltimore City College
80 to g.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd. January 16.-Unable
to make any Roadway against the speed
and stamina of the Midshipmen, the
basket ball team of the Baltimore City
College was defeated by the score of 80
to 8. this afternoon. The academy play
ers made seventeen points in the first
half. while the single tally Of the Balti-
moreans was made on field goal by
Peters. In the second half the Navy
players made twenty-one points, while
the visitors were little more successful
than in the first half, Riley getting two
field goals. and the bali being Melted
three times from the foul line. The local
team had chance to try out a number
of new men, and Of these Hill did the
best work.
Lineup and summary:
Nav. Acad. Position. BALTIC c. {.
ManOck. Bischoff. Forward .............. Riley
HILL Nixon. $500. Forward ............ Peters
Douglass, Ertz. Center ............. .Timan,ls
Bunkiey. Jacobs. Guard ............... .Deaver
Wills, Train. 49,. Guard ............... .Pippeu
Score--Nayal Academy. IS: Baltimore City Col
lege. 8. Goals from the field-Hill to-. Douglass
3D. Nixon t3), Wills (3l, Manock IT, Train,
ErtZ. Riley ~, Peters. Goals from fouls-Wi1ls,
Nixon. Riley ~, Timanus. Fouls called-On Ma
val Academy, 81 on Baltimore City College. 5.
Umpire-Mr. Foster. University of Pennsylvania.
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DEPARTMENTAL LEAGUE

Totals. SiS S25 1923 Totals. S33 S22 s323
First roll-of-Pioneers 50: Knickerbockers,
50. Second roll-on-Pioneers, 81: knickerbOck-
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Opponents Of college athletics have
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naper containing the following remark

a paper containing the following remark
able words:
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unless the physicians you consult with,
until the end Particularly I want 1t kept
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tress my friends. almost beyond endur-
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