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The Black and Gold appears to be
Wen fortified in that most important
For the catching job. there is Wat
kins, varsity receiver last season.
Then there is at hand Pollock, who
was varsity first sacker last year.
him for work in back of the plate
this season.
Mound Material Good.
Schrjder, a clever southpaw hurler
IS the only first-String varsity hurler
remaining from the 1928 team, but he
gives the Old Line coaches a great
start in organizing a mound staff. His
Clarke. right handler. with varsity ex-
perience. and Brayton, who did good
work in the box for Tech High School
before entering Maryland. Last spring
me washington boy was the main
stay of the freshman slab CORPS
Another freshman graduate upon
whom the coaches are banking heav-
lily is Tat" Waters. He showed
enough in the past campaign to war
rant careful consideration this year
handlers. Then there is "Oofty Goof"
who knows his real name? Oofty
was substitute finger for the 1923
FIRE shmen and wise base ball heads
at the university declare he has some
thing more than an odd moniker.
Pollock'S shift to catcher is made
possible by the elevation to varsity
rank OF Troxell, first baseman of the
1928 freshmen, Troxell performed
about the initial bag in splendid style
with the f1edglings and ought not to
have any trouble in making the grade
with the big nine. He was an excel
lent fielder. strong thrower and
hard and frequent hitter in 1928
For the other infield positions the
most likely candidates are Groves
and Besley of last years varsity and
HALEY, freshman team product.
Besley was one of the best players
of the 1928 squad, and probably will
remain at shortstop. Groves is a
sturdy second sacker, and last spring
HALEY was a flash around the hot
corner for the .first-year aggregation.
No Outfield Problem.
Capt Burdette and Remsberg, var
sity regulars in 1923, probably will
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GEN. ALLEN RESIGNS
ASPARIS DELEGATE

PARIS, March 6.-MaJ Gen. Henry
7. Allen, L. S. A, retired. executive
officer of the American Olympic COM
mittee. has withdrawn as one of the
forthcoming Paris Olympic games
according to private message re-
ceived here today. 1t is presumed
that his action was due to comments
here on his recently published diary
regarding French policies toward
Gen. Aliens comments upon French,
American and British official per-
sonages have been taken by some
Frenchmen as indicating conviction
being unfair to Germany.
Diplomatic quarters in Paris, it is
stated, were requested to convey to
the state Department the suggestion
that Gen. Aliens presence in Paris
in June and July on the American
committee might lead to unpleasant
incidents. and this opinion is under
stood to have been conveyed in
Hughes
Friends of the general have felt
that he ought to be informed of the
comment regarding him, as he might
be made uncomfortable upon his ar
rival were he totally unaware of the
impression created here. His de-
tenders have said privately that he
mas W llleI iOtHiHs respecting mis-
sentiments that he had not previously
expressed unequivocally to his French
associates on the Rhineland commits
sion.
French generals visiting Coblenz &C.
casionally have brought back reports
to Paris of Gen. Aliens critical atti-
tude toward their policy and methods
in adjoining bridgeheads. but mas
much as these rested only upon YER
bal discussions in the Rhineland COM
missions proceedings, often on de-
batable measures. the French gov
eminent has made known it's reluct-
ance to take official cognizance of
them.
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get first call for outfield positions this
season. Ray, with the freshmen last
year, Is promising candidate for one
OF the three pasture jobs. And in a
pinch, Pollock, perhaps the most ver-
satile player in the squad. can be
transferred to the gardens. The re
are several other likely outfield as
pirants that already have attracted
the attention of the coaches.
With such lot of talent available.
maryland may not miss those who
ended their base ball playing for the
university last year Senior and Sim
mons. outfielders; Wallis. catcher, and
Moran. 1nfielder, are gone, but Ship
ley and Norris are confident they will
nave ready sturdy nine for the Old
Liners. first engagement in the spring,
that with Gallaudet at Kendall Green
March 20. Nihiser, regular pitcher in
1923. is in school, but has scholastic
difficulties that. doubtless. will keep
him out of athletics this spring.
with team of six men Georgetown
University finished fourth last night
in the annual indoor track and field
Championships of the A. A. U. in New
York. Its total of eleven points was
best of the college squads competing,
those finishing ahead of the Blue and
Gray being Illinois Athletic Club,
Newark Athletic Club and New York
Athletic Club, Holy Cross, Princeton
Pennsylvania and Boston College
were among the varsity aggregations
led by Georgetown.
Hilltop athletes ran one-two in the
1000, Capt. George Marsters getting
the title with a final sprint that nosed
out Willie Sullivan. Fourth places
were earned by Johnny Holden in the
500, Emerson Norton in the high jump
and Esmond Kearney in the hurdle
race. Tony Plansky just missed a
point-scoring place in the shotput
All of these men. except Plansky. will
compete in the Greek benefit games
in New York tonight.
Catholic University swimmers are
printing for one of their most impor-
tant engagements of the season. that
with the Rutgers team at Brookland
The Red and Black will Sc
lect its squad for the competitions
after trials to be held tomorrow aft
ernoon.
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Maland$ Base Ball Outlook Bright old Rivals Peace Pact Al
OLYMPIC FUND MEET
WILL BE BIG AFFAIR

PHILADELPHIA, March 6.-Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania has entered
eighty-six men in the Pennsylvania
Athletic Club track and field carnival
to be held in the arena here Saturday
night, the proceeds of which will go
to Pennsylvania's $4,000 Olympic
quota.
This is the largest list of red and
blue athletes ever entered in an in
door meet, and includes all of those
who took part in the recent COL
legiates in New York.
Many athletes from other colleges
and clubs. who participated in the
Intercollegiate and in the national
indoor A. A. u. championships
Wednesday night, are entered for
competition at the carnival.
They include representatives of
Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, La
fayette, Lehigh, Colorado School of
Mines. Illinois Athletic Club and
Newark Athletic Club, which entered
sixteen men.
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The two Georgian universities prob
ably will meet in base ball this spring
and next year they will be involved in
every branch of sport Foot ball
would be played next fall, but the
schedules of both elevens are filled =
The Bulldogs and the Yellow Jack
cts have not joined in any sport-ex-
cept basket ball.. in which teams of
the two institutions have met through
the process of tourney matches
since 1919. The last foot ball game
was played in 1916.
Alumni Held to Blame.
Relations would no doubt have been
resumed long ago but for the rivalry
of alumni factions whose ardor final,
ly attained a pitch which rendered it
expedient that teams of the two col
leges look elsewhere for opponents.
Those who played the game and took
defeat or victory as it came appear
to have been very little responsible
for the break.
The future inference, thus, is clear
the establishment of that bond Of
friendly rivalry, common respect and
sportsmanlike tolerance that gives to
intercollegiate. sport it's highest sane
ton. There is not the slightest rea-
son, for example, why parisans of the
two seats of learning. say in Atlanta
cannot sit on opposite sides of Grant
Field with all the fine spirit of friend
ly rivalry that eharacterizes contests
here between Tech and Alabama
The way has been cleared for great
things in Georgia.
They ure tnlyfns down south OF
combining the paid coach to mass ath-
letics and restricting intercollegiate
teams to student. coaches. Thus the in
tluence of the Y. M. c. A. shows its
head-whether for good or for bad the
writer has never been able to decide.
Certainly if a game is to be played
up to the hiIt-after the American
fashfon-such contamination may be
brought about only by the man who
has made of teaching a career. Stud
ent coaching would mean retrogression
in technique. The point to be consid-
cred is whether such reaction is not
worth the price of checking the pres
ent intercollegiate tendency toward in
tense specialization.
Gate receipts have come to possess q
meaning in the south as elsewhere. Foot
ball is the producer and supports all
other varsity and intramural games.
What would happen were the process
of preparing teams for the field to re-
vert to practiSes of the eighties is a
matter Of mere conjecture.
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= Va n "A. ~. duAIlOI, III the maj QdSn.
The disqualification of the Illinois
relay teams was the climax to one of
the most holly contested meets in
Amateur Athletic Union history.
Buker's apparent infraction of the
running code robbed Higgins of what
chance he might have had to fight off
Rays frantic finish dash. The try-col-
or athletes scored total OF 81 points
in the twelve events, while the New
York ATHLETIC Club, placed first in the
relay following the disqualification
ond place with 20 points. with the
Newark Athletic Club. Georgetown
fourth
Five new champions were crowned
Six retained their titles. one new
record was established. and one tied
In the hectic struggle for points which
ensued in every event.
The new champions are Ralph G.
Hills. Princeton. in the sixteen pound
town, in the 1,0O0-yard run; Herb
Meyer, Newark Athletic Club in the
seventy-yard high hurdles: Harry F.
Sweitzer, Syracuse Y. NJ. c. A. in
NJ. Mulvihili, Holy Cross, in the 800
yard run
The champions who retained their
titles include Loren Murchison, New
ARK A. G, in the 60 and 900 yard
dashes; Harold M. Osborne. Illinois
A. C., who shares the running high
jump crown with Richard w. Lam
don, New York A. c.; Jofe Ray, Illi-
nois A. c., in the two-mile run; will
one-mile walk, and w. Irving Reid,
Brown, in the standing broad jump.
Ralph G. Hills, Princeton, broke the
A. A. U. championship indc or record
IN the sixteen-pound shot-put with a
hno 10
ing Patrick J. McDonald's record of
1917 by four inches.
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HARVARD CONSIDERS
CURTAILlNG SPORTS

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, March Cur
tailment of athletic activities at Har-
ward was indicated as a possibility in
brief statement issued by J. w. d.
Seymour. secretary for information
at the university.
The statement. given out as a reply
to rumors that the faculty of arts
and sciences at meeting discussed
college athletics, was as follows:
There Is a feeling at Harvard that
too much attention is being paid to
intercollegiate athletic contests and
that the schedules of athletic teams
are excessive.
"Sorle notifications are contem-
plated, but as yet no final action has
been taken by the committee on the
regulation Of athletic sports at Har-
ward"
The secretary and other university
officials refused to amplify this state
ment, which caused considerable COM
ment among undergraduates and
others.
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yenrs by the hands, and the player
never knows the source OF this dis
ease Of golf. / hesitate to lOad
mp the game Of golf with too many
details for the player to be con-
cerncd with, but fortunately the
correct position Of the hands as
the ball is hit requires merely nm
understanding of 1t. The player
need give them but little thought
thereafter. The hands must go
straight through the ball. That is,
the right hand must not be per-
mitted to turn under the shaft as
the Dali Ii hit. II 1t does, a slice
will result. And the wrists must
INTO be allowed to roll or turn over
ns the ball II hit, or n pers1stent
pull will result. Golferss get into
grent difficulties with these things
when they are told to "scissOrso
the hands ms the ball II hit. 1t In
best to forget the hands beyond
seeing to the simple detail of keep
ing them straight in line as the
clubhend goes through.
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FORMER GOLF CHAMPIONS
MAY CLASH IN TOURNEY

BELLEAIR HEIGHTS, Fla, March
6.-Miss Glenna Collett of Providence.
former national golf champion, was
paired today with Miss Priscilla Max
well of Hartford. Conn. in the third
round of the Belleair annual woman's
golf tournament Mrs. Dorothy Camp
bell Hurd. another former champion
was paired with Mrs. G. H. Stetson
of Huntingdon Valley.
Observers predicted that Miss Col
lett and Mrs. Hurd would meet in the
inals, although Miss Maxwell, having
defeated strong opposition in the
early rounds of the tournament. was
conceded a fair chance. Mrs. Stetson
yesterday eliminated Miss Bernice
Wall of Oshkosh, Wisconsin state
champion.
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NOTRE DAME RELAY
WILL RACE IN EAST

NEW YORK, March 6.-Notre
Danes crack one-mile relay team
will compete in the 1,600-meter Cath
Ollie College championships to be held
in the ed Regiment Armory, on Fri
day, March II.
This will be the first appearance of
the South Bend team in the east, and
its showing in the race against
Georgetown, Holy Cross and Boston
College is awaited with interest.
Georgetown's feat in winning the
two-mle relay in the recent inter-
collegiate championships stamps the
Washington collegians as dangerous
contenders.
Holy Cross also will be formidable
With Joe Tierney as anchor man for
he Worcester team
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SPAIN MAKES. ENTRY
FOR OLYMPIC GAMES

PARIS. March 6.-Spain has for
warded her official entry for the 1924
Olympic games.
She will compete in the athletic
events. in swimming. water polo.
fencing. foot ball, tennis. boxing. BIZ
cycling, sculling, polo, shooting and
yachting. She will send between
140 and $50 competitors in all.
Spain's TERMS entry is especially
welcome to the French Olympic COM
mittee, as it has been feared that
because of the absence of the Alfonso
brothers in the United States she
would not be represented In this
event.
The individual entries have not
been received. but it is believed here
that both the Alonsos will be men,
bers of the Spanish team. together
with Count de Conan and Edward
FlaQuer.
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BALTIMORE SOCCERlSTS
TO PLAY BRITISH HERE

Washington soccer fans will have
the opportunity of watching the
crack Bethlehem Steel Company
eleven of Baltimore display its wares
against the British embassy team
Sunday on the Monument grounds.
Play will start at 2:3O o'clock.
The local squad will be sent through
a drill Saturday at 2:30 on the Monu-
ment grounds. These players are to
report: Burton, Hazelwood, Page,
Reilly, Fraser, McGinty, Collins, Green,
Maharry, Martin, Rostwick, Hutchin-
son, Williams and Boyd.
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JOHNNY DUNDEE BOOKED
FOR FIST CLUB OPENING

Johnny Dundee. world champion
featherweight boxer, will appear in
a feature bout at the opening of the
new Washington Sporting Club in
Kenilworth. April Is. According to
Bonnie Franklin, matchmaker and
part owner of the new club, Dundee
already has signed to contract for a
match.
Construction of the arena will cost
$4,000. A seating capacity Of $500
is planned.
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I was paired with Harry Hamp-
ton, the Detroit crack, who at that
time was a mainstay of the Montrose
team. We were making a neck and
neck match of 1t when at critical
moment sliced drive on 400
yard hole far to the right of the
fairway and just back of a Toulouse.
Probably when this Toulouse was
erected no one foresaw that 1t ever
would become one of the courses
hazards. But, through this unlucky
shot, it had become one for me, and
a mighty bad one. too.
i found my ball lying sQuare1y
back Of it, not more than six feet
from its sturdy walls, which, stand
tng sQuarely between the ball and the
green, seemed to offer an impossible
etymie. Defeat for me appeared to.
be in store.
To play over the building was to
other way to get past it unless
, Just in front OF the ball was a
door, slightly ajar. I pushed 1T back
and peered into the Toulouse. 4 In the
opposite wall was another door.
opened this one, too. 4 had. to- smile,
1rwo hundred yards away was the
green. With those two doors flung
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TEST FOR CHICAGO QUINT.

CHICAGO, March 6.-Chicago's
chances to win the western confer
ence basket ball title will be in the
balance tonight when the Maroons
engage the Purdue Boilermakers
here. A victory by Chicago and an
other over Wisconsin March is would
give the Maroons undisputed leader
ship.
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PAGE LIKELY TO COACH
GRIDIRONERS AT IOWA u,

IOWA CITY. Iowa, March ct is
believed here that Pat Page of Butler
College, Indianapolis, will be named
foot ball coach at the University of
Iowa to succeed Howard II. Jones,
who resigned to become athletic di-
rector of Trinity College.
Guy Lehman of Wisconsin Univer-
sity may be named athletic director.
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Inside Golf
Horton

What n lot Of golfers want to
know is; slow can cure n
slicer And quite a few OF them,
have observed, would equally
like to be rid of n persistent pull.
II everything else in the swing
is fairly right. one OF those @incur-
able slices" may be caused for
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YALE CANNOT ACCEPT.

MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, March g.
Yale has rejected the proposal of
Minnesota for a post-season hockey
game series to decide the collegiate
championship of the United States.
]. 7. Blossom, athletic director at
Yale. in a telegram asserted 1t was
impossible for the Yale team to come
west because of a rule prohibiting
post-season intersectional athletic
contests.
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AGAINST PAID ATHLETES.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. March 6-Abo-
lition of all forms Of physical hazing
in fraternal limitations and the elm
ination of paid athletes from college
teams will be discussed at the bien-
Alpha Epsilon Fraternity, which
opened here today. Delegates from
nineteen college and university chap
tiers and from twelve alumni associa-
lions were in attendance.
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open I had an unobstructed line on
the flag.
The play called for low, straight
shot. The slightest deviation up or
down or to either side would have
spelled disaster and possibly injury
from a rebound. There was Just room
for a healthy swing with q wooden
club. used a brassie and when the
ball finished its flight 1t lay six feet
from the cup.
Isbarely missed a birdie three and
went down in par four. winning the
hole. That brRssie shot had upset
Harry, I guess, for he was down in
five. We finally halved our match.
That was fourteen years ago. I
still get a thrill and q laugh when
think of my play.
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TIES HOCKEY SERIES.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, March 6.-St.
Paul last night blanked Cleveland
in the second game of the play off
for the championship of group two
Western Amateur Hockey League.
The score was 3 to 0. The Indians
won the first game, to 2.
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TO HELP COACH TIGERS.

PRINCETON n. j.. March 6-Head
Coach Bill Clark of the Princeton
base ball team will be assisted this
season by George l.. Winter, former
American League pitcher. Winters
work will be chiefly grooming the
battery candidates. He played with
the Boston Red Sox in 1901 and later
with Detroit
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SQUAD OF VETERANS OUT
FOR COLLEGE PARK NINE
Old Line Varsity Holdovers Reinforced by Talent
From 1923 Freshman Team-Ceorgetown Gets
Fourth Place in A. A. u. Meet
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

tlH most OF the 1928
wv freshmen
University of Maryland Three nfelders
couple outhede catcher
team last ready to give Coaches Burt shpy Country
fair start building addition,
@'> 1~-o 'NS>'
Reinforcing this veteran material galaxy
work freshmen
exceptionally good diamond athletes likely to make the older
head DIS 1ook fhe;r1,
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RAY AND OSBORNE BRING
p. VICTORY TO ILLINOIS A. C.,

EW YORK. March 6Ilinos A. c. athletes
Harold M Osborne consecutive
victory the senior A. A. u track field championship
the I'D Regiment Armory night
The victory despite the
the medley alleged interference
OF Kay Buke who according the officials Higgins
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C0LLEGIAN BOWLS WELL.

> SYRACUSE. N. Y, March Syria
cuse rolled a total of 1881 here in a
Intercollegiate bowling
league match with Michigan. Capt
Hunter of the Syracuse, team bowled
255 for his first game. believed here
to be the highest Individual one
game tally scored In the league.
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Ray to Race Hahn.

NEW YORK, March 6.-Joie Ray of
the Illinois A. c., whose spectacular
running featured the national indoor
"A. A. U. championships last night will
meet Lloyd Hahn of the Boston A. A.
in a special three-quarter-m mile race
at the Manhattan College games Fri
day night. Hahn defeated Ray at
the same distance in the Silk A. A.
games early in the season after Ray
had won the mile run earlier in the
evening.
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GEORGIA TECH-CEORCfAU.
ACTION GIVES REAL TONIC
Booms Sports Not Only in State, But Throughout
South-First Scheduled Meeting Since 19f6
Probably Will Be on Diamond
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

7ORD that Georgia and Georgia Tech
Wv the but throughout
the but throughout the
be decidedly
Contests between these to
much Dixie the establishing
influence the Yale Harvard Princeton
the middle
the
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RENAULT TRAILS FIRPO.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, March g.
bout with Cliff Kramer of the Pa
cific coast, in Minneapolis Friday. he
would go to New York in an effort to
arrange a match with Luis Angel
FirpO,
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WELLS AND DUFFY DRAW.

OAKLAND. Calf. March 6-Ber-
monsey Bill Wells of England and
Jimmy Duffy of Oakland, holder of
the Pacific coast welterweight title,
fought four rounds to a draw last
night.
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ANOTHER GREEK ON MAT,

Andrews Castanos. 220-pound Crap
pier, will meet Frank Hudson, a ma
tive of Poland, in the main wrestling
bout at Central Coliseum Monday
night. A. j. Pappas is promoting
the affair. ts-..s
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VILLA FIGHTS TAYLOR.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, March g.
Pancho Villa, world champion fly
weight, and Bud Taylor. Terre Haute
Ind. bantamweight. will meet here
tonight in a ten-round. no-decision
boxing match
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TITLE TO BELOIT FIVE.

BELOIT. Wis, March 6.-Beloit
College won its third successive mid
last night by defeating Cornell Col
lege, Al to 80.
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FORT WASHINGTON QUINT.
NEAR ARMY LEAGUE TITLE

ORT WASHINGTON basketers have commanding lead the
for the Army Service League title 2ltol6 beating
the Washington Barracks yesterday made
record eight victories Now
Potomac Boiling Field
week A win then will about cinch the Championship
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KETONEN IN BOUT HERE.

Waino Ketonen and Pete Sturgis
will be opponents i'm the feature
wrestling bout next Thursday night
at Central Coliseum. They will take
the mat at Sis o'clock