Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-12-27

mere IS no reason why lliUnOT PplO
should not be played in any city that
boasts of a riding rink or an artillery
Or cavalry armory. The game con-
tains many of the elements Of outdoor
polo and as a developer of players it
is really significant Earl Hopping.
national polo. squad for instance,
started as an indoor player and holds
the game in high respect
Teams in the field in the east are
Riding and Driving Club. West Point
Polo Association. Squadron A, I'd
Field Artillery. In addition, the COL
lege division has three representatives
Princeton. Yale and West Point The
two college teams and the service
academy outfit win play for "a cup
offered by Earl Hopping. while the
club teams will go through d. tourna-
ment arranged on the usual junior
and senior basis.
Sundays AIl-America Eleven.
Billy Sunday was in Jacksonville
recently. and there met Morgan Blake.
the Atlanta foot ball critic who
an all-American eleven from the Old
Testament. Billy jumped at the idea.
For center he picked Samson on the
ground that "a guy that could pull
be hard to get through" David and
Jonathan he. selected for hacks be-
cause of their teamwork. For full
back, said Billy. Il pick Beniah:
that guy, when he went out to hunt
a bear, would kill the beast by fall
ing on him Quarterback? That's
easy--So1omon, the wisest gink in his
tory"
At the tackles he placed Jacob and
Esau because they struck him as a
| couple of rangy guys. Explaining his
choice Of Daniel for end he said that
| a man who made good among the
lions would have a cinch with the
tigers. Goliath was suggested as a
player, but Sunday objected to him
I on the ground that he was picking
| regular guys.
Sundays son, Billy, jr, now nine
teen and built like young gladi-
| ator, is going to enter Georgia Tech
and probably will be found playing
foot ball there.
| Gfpp's Last Foot Ball Game.
| A statement that when George Gipr
! played his last foot ball game he had
not only a dislocated shoulder, but was
suffering from tonsilitis points afresh
to the responsibility of those who are
handling young athletes. In theil
| ardor they are only too eager to dis.
T! regard, to conceal illness or othe,
| things which should keep them out
Of games, and it is to be feared there
| are coaches and trainers who, think.
ing more of victory than the health
4 and well being of their charges, re.
| fuse to assert their authority and de-
| their duty by the players theil
parents and their college This, O,
course. is not to say that Notre Dame
authorities were lacking in this re-
spect- L know nothing whatever about
that.
Az to All-Amcrican Grid Coach.
A correspondent asks a pertinent
questions. You all" he says lookins
as though he came to New York from
the south, have Selected your all
American teams. But we all know
| what any eleven would amount t,
without a coach. 70 So then, who i
your selection for aI1-American coach
Mine is Bill Alexander of. Georgi:
Tech"
| Well. the writed might have pickle,
ia lot of coaches inferior to this At
lantan-a whole lot But a well found
ed objection to him would be that a.
yet he lacks experience which woul,
qualify him to take precedence owe
some of the tried-and-true old mas
tiers. from which group the following
nominations are presented:
Robert c. Zupkke of Illinois. Whef
this man of fruity dialect and cleal
eye came to Urbana in 1913, Illinoi.
didn't stand high, her best showing
having been in 1910, when Minnesota
was tied for the conference cham.
pionship. Zupkke's first team, 1914
won the championship. defeating In
diana Ohio, Chicago, Northwestern
] Wisconsin and Minnesota In 1915
n1ini tied Minnesota for the title