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Evening star., 1924-02-29

in consideration of the money TO be
expended in procuring coach some
OF the councillors felt that ii man with
a coaching reputation greater than
Quigley's should b" sought
When the council meets Sunday it
ought to be fully prepared to arrive
at Il decision. Its foot ball committee
has labored strenuously in the past
month investigating the field of men
available for the place and their re-
| port should leave nothing to guess
| work.
Catholic University will entertain
| city College Of New York at Brook
! land tonight in the concluding game
! Of the Districts college basket ball
! season. The varsity contest VIII be
/ preceded by one starting at $50
| O'Clock between the Catholic Univer-
| sity freshmen and team that late
! this afternoon had not been selected.
! The New Workers ought to make
| the season finale brilliant. They are
| reputed to be the cream of college
! court talent in the east. having been
accorded the championship of that
! section the past two campaigns. This
year City College has not sustained
| a defeat, although il has encountered
several of the most formidable aggre-
! cations along the Atlantic coast.
The BrooklanderS are likely to find
! il difficult to repulse the invaders.
/ For a time. Catholic University set
/ Il dazzling pace in college basket ball
/ hereabout. but recently il siumped
| fearfully and although it won its
| last game did not perform impress
! SiVcly.
University of Maryland basketers
! were to make their debut in the an
nual championship tournament of the
Southern Intercollegiate Conference
this afternoon at Atlanta Virginia
! Military Institute was to be the Old
| Liners opponent. Eight Maryland
| players. accompanied by Coach Bur-
ton Shipley. were to arrive in the
| Georgia capital early today.
| Lrhi@h's squad Of tankmen will
visit Catholic University tomorrow
! afternoon for the Brooklanders' sec
| ond home swimming meet of the sea-
son. Caholic University's team, after
/ IA poor start. suddenly found itself
! last Friday and gave Washington
| and Lee a decisive beating in a tank
/ competition. Lehigh. however, ranks
! high in the college swimming world
and Will take Il deal of trouncinS.
Evening star., 1924-02-29

The drawn wrestling match with
Pennsylvania State last Saturday put
the Naval Academy out as a con-
tender for the unquestioned premier
ship in that sport. Should. however
Penn State win the championship OF
the Intercollegiate Wrestling Associa-
tton, the Naval Academy could claim
a joint title to the championship. The
Naval Academy has been persiStently
excluded from this body on the most
trivial grounds.
Boxers Are Unbeaten.
The Academy boxers. who have no,
lost match in four seasons. have
their record unblemished up to this
point on their fifth, their hardest
gymnasts seem to be fairly on their
way to their fourth consecutive title
and the swimmers and water poloists
will stake their chances on the sea
sons honorS when they meet Yale ir
those branches at New Haven or
March Is.
Five interesting contests will make
up the sport program at the Academy
tomorrow. The midshipmen will box
against the team picked from the Ca
madam universities for the third con.
secutive year. The Navy has won the
previous matches, but the Canucks
have announced their intention OF
They intend to make it this year il
possible. and the match is sure to b.
of extreme interest.
The academy swimmers have big
job on their hands IL they are to wir
from Brown, the match being the
second big attraction Of the day
Leading Brown is the redoubtabl,
Davy Jones, who has in Rule of tbs
Navy team his only rival as the great.
est college team now performing. The
bill of the day will be completed by
wrestling match against Washing
ton and Lee, gymnastics against Dart.
mouth and water polo against the
New York Athletic Club.
Many Attractive Matches.
Boxing will also furnish the lead
ing attraction on March s, match
against Pennsylvania State being al
ways contested with skill and spirit
The other events of the day, all al
Annapolis, are: Wrestling, Brown
swimming, Rutgers: gymnastics. Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, and fencing
Hamilton.
The boxers will go to New Haver
Evening star., 1924-02-29

Frank Ellis started something otter
All. For not only has the Penn re-
lay carnival grown to enormous pro-
portions. but it has put relay racing
on the map to stay and has added one
of the most interesting features TO
track meets.
DIR. Spaethe of Princeton. in a recent
article in the Princeton Alumni
Wekely, maintains that the word
athlete is out of place in college
Says DR.. Spaethe:
at is a professional word. Students
interested in athletics. yes. But ath-
letes. no. Our aim is to humanize
youth. to turn out neither pure ath-
letes nor pure scholars or thinkers.
but as Emerson said long ago. men
thinking. Intellectual fitness before
physical fitness, but they are not mu-
tually eXclusive.'
DIR. Spaethe makes one other state
ment that should be referred to the
various bodies aDd organizations now
legislating on the principle Of anna
teurism. He says fatty: you cannot
produce amateurs of any sort by def
nition.'
John Hays Hammond. Il national
figure in this country, has accepted
the chairmanship Of the national COM
mittee Of the campaign to place his
old school, Hopkins Grammar School.
in a new environment. Hammond
was one of the star athletes of the
school in his day. and his exploits on
the grammar school lot are We'll re-
membered by those Of US who looked
up at him with admiring eyes. In
those days the teams from the school
were wont TO defeat the Yale fresh
men, and accidentally the school
which was founded twenty or thirty
years before Yale University-had a
record appro" ched by no other school
in the county.
Drake University. where they in
augurated the first big rival to the
Penn relays, has q foot ball team
which it purposes to send next season
to Salt Lake City to meet the. Uni,
versity of Utah on October 4 and
Thanksgiving day at Gainesville.
Fla. with the University of Florida.
Some one has figured that the Drake
team will travel six thousand miles
and pass through fourteen states.
Foot ball cnthusiaSts are promised,
if plans now on foot go through. a
big game between Columbia and SYRIA
cuse in New York on Thanksgiving
day. Haughton will surely bring his
pupils on more rapidly this year than
last, but Syracuse on the basis of
! her prospects looks like heavy con,
tract. even for the best of them.
| Brig. Gen. Butler of the marines
| having got his cleanup of Philadel'
/ phia we'll under way. is now hoping
| to put on foot ball contest mex
| fall between Penn and the Quantic'
| Marines. II he succeeds in doinf
| this Penn will nave her hands full.
Evening star., 1924-02-29


1t is understood generally that the
, field of candidates acceptable Cor the
coaching position has been narrowed
TO two. through process of eitmina-
tion employed by the special foot bali
committee of the council. and that
the one selected may be made general
manager of all athletics at the HILL
top.
Council of Nine Decides.
The athletic council that has charge
of the affair consists of nine men,
bers. They are Father Vincent Me
DonouGh, DR.. John Shuerue and Fred
erick Stohlman of the university fac
Russell and Joseph Carey of the
alumni. and James GraSty, president
of the university athletic association:
ManfuSo and Gibbons of the uuiVcr
sity graduate body.
All of the faculty aud alumni mem
bers have been identified prominently
with Georgetown athletics and are
thoroughly conVerSant with sports
conditions at the Hilltop extending
over d number of years. The under
perience is somewhat limited. have
considered the situation thoroughly
and are well qualified to act.
Like many other great institutions
OF learning that foster athletics.
Georgetown has had its troubles i'll
tho conduct of intercollegiate sports
relations. However. it is ma king an
earnest effort to repair damages
wrought by mistakes in past years
and evidently does not intend To mend
its fences in haphaZard manner. The
man who gets tn" job at the Hilltop
will get it only because. in the opin-
ion of the council. he Is the one to
best serve the interests of the inSti-
tuition.
QuiSlcy Was Considered.
For Il time il was thought that
William QuiglcL. University of Penn
sylvauia afumnuS. who lest Year re-
linuuished the foot ball coaching
reinS at George Washington, was
slated for the position. QulElcy is an
able man. and given material and ia
ciiitieS afforded by such Il place as
Georgetown. probably would put IT on
not only the foot ball. but general
athletic plane it deserves.
His candidacy was brought before an
early foot ball committee il not coun-
ell meeting last month and al that time
rejected. II has been limited by those
in close touch with the situation that
Evening star., 1924-02-29

4 spirited match was played be-
tween the Hurricane and the Lex
iEgton girl tossers. the former WIN
ming. IS to -. Misses Hess, Cooper
and Ebel of the winners and Miss
performers.
Marjorie Webster girls We're to en-
:TT,nin the Swagger club of An
napolis. Md. today in the Epiphany
gymnasium. Play was to start at
$50 o'clock.
Perry Athletic Club has cancsied
it's game tomorrow night with the
Twin Oaks team. The Perry pilot
may be telephoned at Adams. 2104-R.
Challenges to the Olympic Athletic
Club are being received by Manager
Outcault at Columbia S00S-J after 6
o'clock.
Evening star., 1924-02-29
CONFERENCE TITLE MEET
WILL BE HELD June CT

CHICAGO. February 29.-The Vest
ern Conference outdoor track and field
games will be held on Stagg Field
June and 4. Abandonment of the
year because of unavoidable conflict
with Olympic games mas solved what
appeared to be serious conflict of
dates.
Winners of the first three places in
each event will qualify automatically
for the final Olympic try-outs in the
Harvard Stadium the following Friday
and SATURDAY.
Evening star., 1924-02-29


Walter Hoyt. center of the HaGers-
town Elks. will display his wares for
the Palace five. He is rated as one
Of the best pivot players in the coun-
Try having starred with the kcyScr
ColiegianS. Il we'll known team. Ar
rangemcnts now are being made for
a preliminary game between the st.
Paul ard the immaculate Conception
teams, starting. o'clock.
RasketcrS of the Cyclones took the
measure of the Boys Club Yankees.
~ to II. A strong defense served the
winners well. Finnegan of the losers
Gagged two baskets.
Anncostia Eagles will defend their
14o-pound basket ball title tonight in
q game with the Iosemites IN the
set a merry pace this season and
red-hot scrap is anticipated.
National Seniors surprised the
| Mount Vernon five in a IS to "A extra
period game. The winning quint
plans to enter the South Atlantic
A. A. L. basket ball tournament TO
be held in Baltimore the latter part
of March.
with kiIroy. wiltshire aud Shapiro
much in evidence. the Soutnend MID
GETS administered a IS to 19 beating
to the Cuthbert youngsters. Eplphany
AIidEets will be the opponents OF tne
Southcnds "a the Coliseum. March 10
in a game that practically will decide
the midget basket ball title.
Accurate goal shooting by Buchanan
and Robinson of Argyle Athletic Club
enabled their team to down the iWin
also did we'll for the winners.
Comet tossers provided a startling
unset when they easily disposed of
the Alexandria Light Infantry team,
~ TO %. Ceisler and ONeii OF the
winners accounted for thirteen court
Goals Krumm was best for the Fir-
Einians.
NcCathran of the Washington Preps
pocketed eight cih 6asEfss Hfs team nsatis. vim.
ninr. 81 to 10. Dornin of the losers
4 cut the cords for three goals.
U,.biurton barracks five fell be-
! fore Calvary NJ. T.. in "a 80 TO Is match.
Iinke of the winners was high scorer
with seven baskets.
Displaying a fast running attack kin in
the last half, Riverside Athletic CIhb
oyercame the Circle basketers. 20 TO
% Clever work by Lydon aided the
winners. Keppel starred fer the
losers. .-..e
Epiphany Midgets won their thirty
third game by taking the measure OF
National Athletic Club. 30 to 20.
Theis of the winners cfged SIX oask-
cts.
Chevy Chase BearcatS offered III
tie opposition ran roushshod over
Woodside Athletic Club in - 10 j
game. Atherton and + Alexander
performed we'll for the winners.
st. Paul Midgets Were forced to eX-
tsnd themselves to nose out the
Orioles. 26 to % Barker and Il. King
were big factors in St Paufs viii
Interior Department five will play
host to the silver Spring Service
Company quint tonight in the Naval
Reserve gymnasium. DR.. A. ID. Butt
of the. department team is anxious &c
book games with Aloysius and Palace
Laundry tossers.
Girl tossers of Princess Athletic
Club turned in a 63-to-S victory over
the ,Epworth League sextet. Right
Forward Totten of the winners
scored forty-siX points.
Columbia Juniors continued theiI
winning streak, lowering, the colors
OF the Boys Club .Celtics in a 32-to-
"a game. McDonough and Potter
were mainly responsible for Column
bias victory.
Evening star., 1924-02-29
TURKEY TO HAVE TEAM
IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES

NEW YORK, February e9.-Turkey
has appropriated 10000 Turkish
pounds 10 train and send athletes
to the Olympic games.
This is the ayst move Of any I'm
portance on tha part of the Turkish
government to encourage athletics.
Turkish ofiis,als are now seeking
competent European coaches to train
the Turkish athletes.
Evening star., 1924-02-29
SERVICE GRID GAME SITE
TOBE NAMED TOMORROW

ANNAPOLIS, February 29.-Deci-
sion as to the site for the Army
Navy foot ball game next fall will
be given tomorrow, Rear Admiral
Wilson, superintendent of the Naval
Academy, has announced.
Navy has the selection under the
alternate year agreement between the
rival service schools and it has just
been discovered here that the choice
must be made by March /.
Evening star., 1924-02-29
ONLY FEW TEAMS FIGURED
In FIRST GAMES In 1895
Dozen Colleges and Score of Schools Took Part
Them But Now More Than 500 Institutions
Send Their Representatives.
BY WALTER CAMP,

JHEN Frank Ellis the idea
wv 1895 there who
dozen colleges and OF other schools part the
loo with us relay entered while
to 40 with 500 relay tered.
lhs the a
greater number including Cambridge
England what Cambridge will
take but expected that addition
VIII distance mile
Evening star., 1924-02-29
27 TEAMS ARE ENTERED
FOR INDOOR TITLE MEET

NEW YORK, February 2s.-Lead-
ing athletes of twenty-seven organi-
cations have been entered in the ma
tional indoor track and field cham
pionship meet to be held at the 22nd
Regiment Armory next Wednesday
night.
The New York A. c. will have the
most entrants, twenty-three. one
more than will wear the colors Of
the Illinois A. c., of Chicago.
Evening star., 1924-02-29
c. Grid Coach Choice Likely Sunday Penn Carnival Has Goum
BASKET BALL RESULTS.

At Macon, Ga.-Mercer. 32; Center,
~ (s. l. A. A. champlOnship hnnl)
mississippi College, "a, Newberry. -
(for third place I'm tourney.
At AtIanta-FlOrida. II, Clemson, Ii
(openihx game in Southern Confer
ence tourney.
20.
At Observation-Disclosures 35, Kali
amaxOO Normal, -,
At GreencastIe-Depnu Al; Wa
bash, II.
80.
Evening star., 1924-02-29
CLARKE IN TITLE MEET.

NEW YORK, February 29.-LouiS
Clark. sprinter from Johns Hopkins
University. who set a new world rec
ord Of A. seconds in the indoor 100
yard dash at Baltimore last Saturday
will compete in the 90 and 500 yard
dashes at the national indoor cham
piOnships March ..
Evening star., 1924-02-29
FIRESTON1 TIRE TOSSERS
PLAY PALACE TOMORROW

ASkET BALL OF high quality expected night the
Heights the Palace Laundry
- Tire Akron, Ohio. Play will 9
Joe
of
battle itself brisk
Evening star., 1924-02-29
CENTRAL QUINT REACHES
SEMI-FINALS in TOURNEY

|ENTRA HIGHS basket ball achieving distinction i'll the
University Pennsylvania
formidable school OF
championship White askeers who
+to26
game the Uppr Darby High
Evening star., 1924-02-29

WEST POINT, y. V, February %.
Cadet William II. Wood of Baltimore,
member Of the class of 1925 has been
elected captain Of the Army basket
ball team for next season. Wood also is
a star foot ball and base ball man. He
has played guard on the Army basket
ball team for two years.
Evening star., 1924-02-29
FRANKLIN FIVE STOPPED.

FRANKLIN. Ind, February 29.-Frank-
lin College basket ball team lost its
first game in two years at the hands of
Butler last night. 36 to %. Franklin
won the state collegiate championship
last wear
Evening star., 1924-02-29


Should the local quint emerge the
victor. it will be matched against
either Roman Catholic High or West
Philadelphia High tomorrow night in
the deciding match.
Victory for Central yesterday over
Lancaster came as a blow to Quaker
followers. Outweighed ten pounds to
the player, Central was given little
chance for victory. Playing the best
tralites lost no time in showing their
opponents something. Dribbling,
, passing and shooting with cleverness,
Central forged to the front and set
the pace all the way.
trails attack in the opening minutes
of play, each pocketing difficult goal
shots. From then on it was all Cen
trail. Lancaster was trailing, 20 to
II, at half time and never caught up
to the Blue and White.
The Quaker City youngsters en-
tered the fray with a win to their
credit over West Philadelphia High. the
team that eliminated Eastern.
After. Central had the game on Ice.
in the closing minutes Coach Cog
| gins sent in his substitutes.
Dewitt Prep fosserx were forced to
battle all the way to overcome ST.
and Carusf Of Dewitt demonstrated
their ability at goal shooting. How
| ever, II. Collins of st. Johns led the
| field, with five baskets.
Lightweight teams of Central and
fWestern were to meet today on the
! formers court i'm game that. will
DECIDE the lSO-pound high schoo
/ title. Play will start at S:15 o'clock
Both teams have made enviable rec.
: it's fifteen games. while Western has
| lost two games in sixteen.
Evening star., 1924-02-29
COUNCIL OF NINE TO NAME
HILLTOP FOOT BALL HEAD
Athletic Board Wants Definite Action at Meeting
Field of Candidates Believed Narrowed TO
Two--C. U. Qun in Contest Tonight.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

OF Jackie Maoney,
Hilltop ial
charge Georgetown University
athletic
meeting Sunday
griiron that Maoney
a number
clocmouthed the
held accomplished little
Evening star., 1924-02-29

Brig. Gen. Butler of the marines,
having got his clean-up of Philadel-
phia we'll under way. is now hoping
to put on a foot ball contest next
fall between Penn and the Quantico
Marines. If he succeeds in doing
this Penn will nave her hands full.
Evening star., 1924-02-29

NcCathran of the Washington Preps
pocketed eight baskets against
Apache Athletic Club hls team VII
,,;ng 81 10 10. Dornin of the losers
cut the cords for three goals.
Evening star., 1924-02-29

Girl tossers Of Princess Athletic
club turned in a 63-to-S victory over
the Epworth League sextet. Right
Forward Totten of the winners
scored forty-siX points.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-20
Babe Starts Wrong
BY Losing $1,000;
Other Camp News

New York. March I9-Bad luck
which started trailing Babe Ruth
when he went to boil out" at Hot
Springs. was in evidence at New Or
leans when the Bambino lost one Of
four $1,000 bills he was carrying to
n bank from his hotel room to for
ward to his wife.
Bob Meusel conferred with Mana
ger Higgins but failed to reach an
agreement, though their differences
over salary We're understood to be
slight. Meusel, however, declined to
start practising until his terms were
met.
Jack Fourier. Brooklyn's only le-
ultimate first baseman. reported at
Clearwater, Fla, and besides getting
limbered up. informed -lanager Rob-
irson that Milton Stock. st. Louis in
fielder, was eager to be transferred
to Brooklyn. AS the cardinals need
a catch n deal may be arranged.
Made virtually idle by rain at Sa-
rasota, Fla, the Giants took stock of
themselves and reports indicated the
regulars from last yea~ were not con-
fident Of holding their jobs against
the excellent group of rockies.
The experts asserted Way'and
Deane from Louisville. surely would
become n regular pitcher that Fred
I.indstrom from Toledo. would re-
main as an extra gardener and that
Ernest Maun probably would be car
ried as a substitute pitcher.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-20
STATE ny" HOoPSTERS
BATTLE FOR TITLE
HERE SATURDAY

Basketball fans of this city will
be treated to some fast exhibitions
of the hoop game Saturday. when the
fast outfits representing Auburn, Au-
gusta, Bangor and Bath y. NJ. c. A.
will clash in City Hall. The winner
of this tournament will be declared
the Maine champions. as all teams
eligible to this tourney were invited
to compete by the local 'Y".
The preliminary contests will be
held in the afternoon and the survi-
vors will clash in the evening. In
drawing off the matches. Bath was
selected to oppose Bangor which
leaves the local quintet to fight it out
with the snappy boys from Auburn.
The majority of the players of
these teams are old High School
stars, who, according to all reports,
have lost none Of their old time clev-
erness.
The local team needs no introduce
ton to the local fans. The cream OF
the City league will represent the
local Association. "Vern" Soule,
Dick Benn, Bcals, Mccall and other
local stars will try to offer the visit
ing teams some opposition, and
judging from the brand of ball play
cd by these boys IN the league, the
locals should finish well up in the
tourney.
This tournament is unique IN that
it is the first of its kind ever to be
attempted in the Pine Tree State.
The local "Y" is going to incur a
great expense in staging this attrac-
ton and the fans cannot help ap-
preciating the fact that Augusta Is
leading the way as pioneer in
Amateur Journeys. When man.
agement shows enough confidence in
the local fans to bring a major event
like this, it behooves the sport fol-
lowers to support the management
by their presence.
Support of this tournament will
mean 4 name for Augusta as n
sporting town, and n town standing
Loyalty behind its local organizations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-20
Ninth Inning Rally
Wins for Phillies
From Yannigans, 7-6

Philadelphia. March 19.-With the
score G to 4 against them. the Philadel-
phia American Regulars staged the
first ninth inning rally of thnir spring
training season and won from the
Yannigans yesterday Z to 6 at their
camp in Montgomery. Ala.
The Regulars had gone into the
eighth session with comfortable 40
margin. but the youngsters staged a
six-run rally, featured bv Earl Macll's
double with the bases filled. In the
ninth Bishop drew a pass from Ogden,
former Swarthmorc store. Sammy Hale
followed him with a homer to right
center tying the score. Strand. for
mer coast league slugger. picked out
fast one. pokcd it to the same place
and stretched it to a triple. Hauser
went out. but Simmons drove a long
fly to Welch and Strand scored the
winning run after the catch. The
Yannigans failed to score In their half
of the inning.
The Philadelphia Nationals were idle
at Leesburg. Fla, because OF rain.
They are scheduled to play the Mil
waukee team of the American Asso-
citation today at Palmetto.