Evening star., 1922-01-13

lean-to.
All that is necessary, it seems, to
insure convocation of golfers mott
waited in all their actions by fra
ternal amiablity Is the presence in
the Windy city of an apweciable
representation of eastern delegates.
Otherwise. of course, the westerners
might feel just II bit slighted and
would be justified in their state of
mind. However, generous eastern
representation filled two special cars
leaving New York yesterday.
Stymie Rule May stand.
While Silas II. Strawn of Chicago
who was president of the United
States Golf Association in 1911-1912,
will submit what he regards as
plan which will solve the mooted
stymie problem. the chances are that
the rule as at present constituted
admitting there is sentiment against
twill not be tampered with. The
stymie hound is a dangerous animal
when aroused and it would appear
that the tendency will lse to let him
sleep.
There may be some legislation over
the ribbed mashie. The feeling in
the east-at least among some promi-
nent eastern Eolfers-has been that
A ribbed faced club, THAI it enables
the dub to pitch as accurately as the
expert. This is as may be. At all
events il enough sentiment develops
against the ribbed maShie at Chicago
it may be outlawed then and there.
otherwise. nothing seems to promise
in the way of interesting and sig
nificant legislation. The assignment.
of tourney dates before the meeting
will relieve the delegates of long
winded oratory evangels of various
golf courses.
Penn Make. Fouls Count.
Pennsylvania still is adding to her.
already long string of basket ball
victories, out of which may be drawn
one extremely significant fact. 1t re-
lates to foul shooting and brings into
prominence young man named.
Grave. who holds down the center
position for Old Penn. Mysterious,
one may say uncanny. is the way the
Quakers develop stars who can stand:
in the white circle and click on foul
have been feared as one of the worst
teams In the intercollegiate league
against which to commit fouls.
There was Keinath in 1908. who,
seemed to have a special aerial routel
between his hands and the basket.
The writer recalls seeing him throw
thirteen in as many tries in game'
against Columbia. Then there waa
Eddie McNichol. In 1916 he threw
welve out OF a dozen fouls against.
Cornell one night, and sixteen.
straight against Syracuse the next.
George Sweeney was another extraor-
dinary foul shooter and SO was Danny
McNichol, one Of whose feats last
year was the tossing of twenty-one
out Of twenty-five baskets from the
foul box.
Teams that hope to defeat Pennsyl-
/. vania should learn to stick as closely
!. to the rules as possible and at thet
same time spend as much time ana
attention as the Pennsylvania coaeh
does to the development of foul shoot
ers. Occasionally one hears talk OF,
the abolition of the foul throw rule.
but If this ever comes about the game
will suffer terribly as standardized.
sport.
The element of personal contact
simply cannot be permitted to get out
Of hand In this fast game. and 1t can
be kept in hand only under rules as
constituted. Last year, in the season
of the intercollegiate league only 4lo
personal fouls were called, an average
of something less than fourteen TO a.
game, or seven to side.
Exciting hockey is promised in the
arena at New Haven tomorrow night,
when the Princeton and Yale sevens
meet for the first time this year. A.
line on the two teams drawn through
games against Pennsylvania give the
Tigers a bit of an edge which may or
may not be in evidence lin the con-
test itself.
Copyright. 1929