Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-21
BAKERS DROP KICK
LONGEST OF YEAR
Princeton Captains 43-Yard
Boot in Yale Game Was
Best of Season.
DEETJEN HAD BEST RUN

HOBBY Baker, OF Princeton, is
credited with making the longest drop
kick of the 1918 season, according to
the statistics issued recently by
Parke Davis, the Princeton member
of the football rules committee. The
record kick was made in the Yale
game, land was accomplished from
the 43-yard line. H. P. Tallman, of
Rutgers, together with r. M. Calvin,
of Pittsburgh, is credited with the
second best distance of the year, that
of AZ yards, which was the flight of
a drop kick in the Trinity game.
Baker also has a 46-yard kick from
placement on his record.
Waldemar Deetjen, the Montclair
boy, on the Wesleyan team, is also
pfhced on the roll of honor for hts
run of So yards in the New York
University game. ]. P. Toohey, of
in the Hobart game and appears on
the merit list.
The record for the greatest num-
Der of field goals by single player
in one game goes to Charles e.
Brickley, of Harvard, who scored five
against Yale. Pressing him closely,
however, is the schoolboy performer,
James M. Porter, who, in the game
against Hackley referred to, kicked
three other goals from the field, all
by drop kicks, making four for the
day, with the additional distinction
of having missed a fifth try from
the f1fty-yard line by only a narrow
margin.
Boxing enthusiasts at the Univers-
ity of Pennsylvania have formed
themselves into an organization, and
at a meeting yesterday elected the
following officers: C. NJ. Knopf, Is,
president; r. F. Perrott, '16, vice
president; o. A. l.. Keser, ID, secre-
tary. About fifty men are taking
boxing lessons daily under Instructor
George Decker, and enthusiasm is
running so high that the boxing club
has sent In a formal petition to the
Athletic Association for recognition
as a minor sport, and permission to
represent the university in athletics.
Princeton outplayed Yale at basket
ball last night at New Haven and
won 80 to 9. 1t was the fastest game
played on the Yale gymnasium floor
this year. Princeton men ran over
the floor and shot baskets almost al
will. The score stood 16 to 5 at the
close of the first half, with Princeton
leading. In the second period the
substitution of Wheeler and Wilson
football men, added to the strength
of the Yale team.
e. K. Hall, chairman of the inter.
collegiate football rules committee
has called a meeting Of the two com.
mittees in New York city for Friday
evening, February 6, at 8 o'clock. The
members of the two committees
which sit jointly, for 1914 are as fol
lows: intercollegiate committee
Prof. A. A. Stagg, Chicago; Captain
Joseph W. Beacham, Cornell; Craw
ford Blagden, Harvard; .Prof. Paul
Dashiell Navy; William N. Morice
Pennsylvania; Parke H. Davis
Princeton; Walter Camp, Yale. Ma
tional collegiate committee-Lieuten
ant d. I. Sultan, Army; e. K. Hall
Dartmouth; Prof. J. A.. Babbitt
Haverford; Prof. S. c. Williams
Iowa State; Prof. c. w. Savage
Oberlin; Harris Cope, Sewanee; DR.
H. L. Williams, Minnesota.
The Harvard hockey team played a
! 2 to 2 tie against the Boston A. A
seven yesterday at the Boston Arena
| in a practise game. Smart and Phil
| lips scored for the Crimson, while
| Foote and Hicks did the successful
shnnti0p for the Cluh