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Evening star., 1924-12-12

| l know there will be many to dis
pute me on this, as l am not dealing
| with obvious or easily obtainable
! facts, but / have overwhelming proof
| of the truth of what I say.
! Here is what the faculty committee.
| consisting of two or three members.
| is supposed to do:
| Select the graduate manager-in re-
| cent years paid cmploye.
| rasS upon selections for student
managers for various teams.
| See that a high standard of scholar
ship is maintained by athletes.
! Pass upon and approve schedules
made by the coach and graduate
manager.
! Render each year a complete public
| financial accounting of college ath-
| leticS.
| What Really Happens.
| Here is what the faculty committee
actually does:
1t selects the graduate manager
chosen and recommended by the
alumni committee.
| 1t approves student managers Sc
| lected by coaches and alumni.
| 1t faithfully performs it's duties of
| maintaining high scholarship stand
ards-as best it can against the pres
sure of the coach and alumni com :
| mittee
| 1t places a purely Derfunctory o. X.
on the schedules of games prepared
| by the coach and ,he graduate man
| ager.
1t renders each year a general
| statement of finances, without in
! cluding-probably not understandin !,
the really interesting expenditures
Here is what the alumni committee
is supposed to do:
Boost the college in every legit,-
mate way, encourage attendance at
| games and rallies and do all DOS
sible to nourish loyalty and service
| to the school That's about the limit
of it's Legitimate function.
Here is what the alumni committee
actually does:
Selects graduate manager and
| gets approval for it's selection from
| the faculty committee.
| Co-operates with the coach on the
| selection of student managers, with
later faculty approval
| Contrives means of getting prom
! ising players past scholarship bar
| -ie.e.
Co-operates with the coach and
graduate manager on the prepara-
tion of schedules of games.
/ Obtains money to do duietly and
1 ID
done openly and officially by the fac
ulty committee.
Selects the coach.
Maintains the big, silent back.
ground organization of foot ball on
! a business basis.
The Boot Behind the Kick.
A careful consideration of the
above contrasting real and supposed
functions tells the story of the ir-
resistible encroachment of alumni or
college athletic control, which prop
erly should be vested in the COL
lege.
1t is a commonplace of general in
formation that graduates of large OF
fashionable Eastern colleges slide
easily into metropolitan business
Selling bonds in Wall street is al
most the inevitable next step of many
a graduate of Harvard. Yale OF
Princeton. AS the years go by, these
men succeed in business and gain
money and influence. They retain
their loyalty to their college, and
gradually behind each college there
is built up a body of strong and re.
| sourceful men who stand ready to dc
a good deal for the old school," I,
is perfectly natural and inevitable
that, with the desperate drive fol
winning teams, these assets shoulo
be utilized. 1t also was inevitable
that means of recruiting this infiu
ence gradually should be systema.
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u. OF M. FR0SH FIVE
HAS 80 CANDIDATES

More than 30 basket balT players,
many of them former Washington
high school stars, have reported for
the freshman team at the University
of Maryland.
Among the leading candidates are
Adams. Thomas. Woodward. Brown
and De Marco who were at Tech last
season, and Davis. Merrill and Ste
phens. who performed for Western.
Smith, who earned the all-high Sc
lection at center while playing at
Eastern last year. and Whelchel, a
regular at Western during the 1924
campaign, also are expected to report
shortly. Smith has an injured foot
and Whelchel had the end of his finger
cut off in the machine shop yesterday y.
Linkous and Stubbs, leading play
ers on the Bel Air (Md) High team a
year ago; Miller, who played for Han
stead (MdD High; De Ran of Hyland
(Md.D High; Greenlaw of Ridgewood
On. JD High, and Bomberger, who has
played much independent basket ball.
are among other promising con-
tenders.
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S. A. CR0SS-COUNTRY
RACE AT MARYLAND

University of Maryland expects to
be host to more than so barriers to-
morrow afternoon when the annual
South Atlantic A. A. U. cross country
championship will be run under it's
auspices. The race will be at Ga
miles, and will start promptly at 3
o'clock. The start and finish will be
at College Hill.
In all likelihood. competition for the
team trophy will develop into a three
cornered fight among the squads of
Maryland, Johns Hopkins and Alloy
sius Club of this city. Each has a
fine collection of distance runners.
Maryland bases it's belief in its
strength on the showing the team
made in the 10-mile race in Baltimore
Thanksgiving day. Seven of the first
10 runners to finish were Old Liners
The Maryland team also has defeated
Virginia and William and Mary teams
this year. It's only loss was to Nir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute, at Blacks
burg, at the outset of the campaign.
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COLUMBIA TOSSERS
TO MEET PRESIDENT

NEW YORK, December 12.-The
Columbia University basket ball
squad will be presented to President
Coolidge at the White House tomor-
row, morning.
Joe Deering, Blue and White coach
and resident of Washington, OBJ
tanned the appointment with the
President through a friend attached
to the White House.
There Will be in the party 10 play
ers, Royal j. Cooney, undergraduate
manager; Charley Barrett, trainer
and Deering. They will leave for
Washington this afternoon and spend
the night here.
Following the presentation to the
President the squad will depart for
Annapolis, where the annual game
with the NIiddies will be played a
year ago Columbia beat the Navy
on the local court by score of "a
to %.
Strom and Farer. high scorers for
Columbia in that game, are not mem
berS of this years squad.
Navy has beaten the University Of
Maryland. which won from Columbia
in an extra period game by one point
last Friday.
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tized and put on business basis.
Hence the final preponderance in in
huence of alumni over faculty com
mittees-of unofficial over faculty
control
Subterranean Foot Ball.
On account of the fiercely competitive
phase of foot ball scouting, the entire
enterprise has been constantly driven
underground. 1T is this. / believe and
not any inherent villainy, which ac-
counts for the hidden system The
alumni who lend hand in making it pos
sible for boys to go to college who
otherwise might be barred by inferior
scholarship or lack of funds are indi-
vidually men of fine business and pro-
fessional integrity. The faculty members
and executives who succumb to inf
uences which often-and | speak ad-
vlsedly-leave them no alternative but
economic disaster, are, | am convinced
above the average of American citizen
ship in craftsmanship and loyalty to
professional ideals. 1 believe 1t has all
come about, not because of lowering
standards of conduct, but because so
few people have really understood what
was happening.
In later chapters I will give incidents
and details, showing how the system
works.
| Copyright, 1924
Evening star., 1924-12-12
SOCCER TITLE PLAY
WILL START TODAY

Those who have watched the ele-
mentary graded school soccer series
for the past several weeks expected
a keenly contested battle today be
tween the Park View and Blow
School teams on the Plaza play
grounds in the first of a three game
schedule. which Will decide 1924
champion eleven. The game will
start at $50 o'clock.
Blow School garnered the Eastern
divisional award. while Park View
reached the top in the Western Sc
ries games. The rivals put in their
finishing licks yesterday and each
ought to offer the other some lively
action.
Park View has a slight weight ad-
vantage. but the Blow athletes be-
lieve their speed will offset their foes
greater poundage.
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LAMBERT, STAR ATHLETE,
LEAVES NAVAL ACADEMY

ANNAPOLIS, Md, December IA
star athlete has been lost to the Naval
Academy through the resignation of
Robert ID. Lambert of Iowa, a member
of the second class.
Lambert is crewman, and as a
substitute tackle this year he had
every prospect of making the var
sity eleven as a regular next season.
Though he is one of the leading schol-
ars in his class, he decided not to pur-
sue a naval career
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In its initial game with the Trux-
ton Athletic Club Hutchinsons quint
displayed championship qualities, but
the five has rough road to travel.
Teams that could be termed trial
horses" viii be met by the Corbys in
an effort to round it in shape for the
more important games ahead.
Tossers of Company C. 18th Tank
Battalion Of Camp Meade, will tackle
the Cor'by five Sunday in the Congress
Heights Gymnasium. starting at 3
o'clock. The Yosemites and the
Washington Athletic Association will
supply the action in preliminary
game that will get under way at =
o'clock.
Charley Brady, reported to be
former Notre Dame tosser. will be
given chance to prove his worth
against the soldier basketers. Tommy
Ford, Ray Catlin, Harvey Ingley and
Johnny Geetz are being counted upon
by the Corby pilot. Little is known
of the soldier quint.
Winton Athletic Club scored 20
to-23 victory over the Independent
team. Mike Codella will captain the
Winton five this year, while Edward
Malloy wilF act as manager.
.Roamer Athletic Club offered the
Naval Receiving station little opposi-
tion yesterday, the latter winning, Al
to IA. Wright and Reavin were the
outstanding players for the Yictors.
Chevy Chase Athletic Club has Sc
lected tough opponent in the Ar
gyle five Saturday night in the All
Saints Gymnasium at Chevy Chase
Capt Duryee, Atherton. Alexander,
Batson, Tribby, Hubbard, Fisher and
IynI 10
Manager Hubbard of Chevy Chase is
seeking games at CIevelaqd 1871.
Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity auint
of the University of Maryland fell be-
fore the Hyattsville High School
tossers. 2 TO 10. Parks and Dix play
ed well.
4 superior passing game enabled
the Palace Athletic club to down the
Washington Barracks five. 81 to s.
Bryant and SPAIN of the victors and
Hankins OF the soldiers performed
creditably.
Pullman Athletic Club will have
the Northern five as its guests tonight
at 1880 o'clock in the r. r. Y. NJ. c. a.
gymnasium.
Company II five of the Hyattsville
the Truxton team. 81 to IS. Harvey
lngley Of the victors Gagged six goals
to lead his teams attack
Eastern Athletic Association and the
Petworth quint will be opponents to-
morrow night in the new Eastern
High School gymnasium. Challenges
to the Fasteners are being received
by the manager at Lincoln l313-W
Royce Athletic Club. newly organ
lied, and managed by Robert Francis
Henderson,, has fine bunch of tossers
in Fred Williams. Dick Harvey.
Arnold Wesson, Ball Wesson, Addie
Jones, Robert Roccaty and Charles
Homer. The five already has i'm
pressed, as ii lowered the colors of
the Silver Spring Aggies. Northern
Juniors and the Aurora tossers.
Royce has turned in 63 points to its
opponents 80 in these three games.
Boys averaging 16 to 19 years old,
who desire to join the club, should
get in touch with the manager at
Columbia 41S2.
LanEford and Peck of the North
ern Athletic Club led their team :
attack when the Company + Reserves
of the Hyattsville National Guard
were downed, % to 16. Wright was
best for the losers.
Columbia Midgcts easily disposed
of the TAX oma Midgets. 35 to s. with
Carroll and Ellis in the limelight for
the victors. Fitzgerald Of Takoma
also played well.
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PRINCETON TO PLAY
nine GRID BATTLES

PRINCETON, N. J., December Ia
Princeton's foot ball schedule for
1925 contains seven games. including
two with teams not on this year s
list, the board of athletic control has
announced.
Washington and Lee replaces
z,effgh for the second game of the
season and Colgate plays the mid
season home game instead or r@otre
Dame.
The Navy will be played at Annap-
oils.
The complete schedule:
October g. Amherst; 10, Washington and
Lee: II, Navy, at Annapolis; "A, Colgtae; 81
November I, Harvard; IA, Yale, at New
Haven.
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SEASON AT CATHOLIC i.
WILL START TOMORROW
City Club Five Follows Blue Ridge ON Brookland
List-Gaaudet to Face Alexandria Quint.
Little Athletic Director at C.. u.
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

|lllE all basket ball OF the local
wv diligently only three scheduled def
of this month Catholic University
tits and Gaaudct that beaten last night in Bal
by the Y NJ H. A.
s. to cnte
debut
Blue Ridge College New
Windsor, Md Catholic Unvcrty freshman and the five of Cen
70 o'clock.
5
Alexandria Kendall
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WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN
TO PLAY GAME IN TEXAS

BUCKHANNON, W. Va, December
12.-West Virginia Wesleyan College
has accepted an invitation to meet
southern Methodist University in a
foot ball game at Dallas, Texas, on
New Year day under the auspices
Of the Texas state Fair Association.
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Iv-WHO'S BOSS AND WHO ISN'T.
Id for obvious reasons.)

IT repeat the conclusion of the last chaptcr-or important
| in virtually Of
athletics 1t of the official control
m and the unofficial control of the alumni
Now articles
h uh- of the who'll dic
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MAT BOUT TO PARELLI.

Joe Parelli. middle weight wrestler
defeated Demon Kid Ellis last ui~hi
at the Mutual Theater. Parelli lost
the first fall. but took The neNt tMn
Evening star., 1924-12-12
KELCHNER PLAYS SHERMAN.

George Kelchner and John Sher-
man are due to meet in "a pocke 1T
billiard match tonight. at the Grand
Central parlors. Charles Bartelmes es
won from Give Richmond, leo to 50,
last night.
Evening star., 1924-12-12
READING PICKS CAMP.

READING, Pa, December 12.-Lees-
burg, Fla, has been selected by the
board of directors of the Reading
club Of the International League for
the training grounds of the team next
Spring.
Evening star., 1924-12-12
CORBY QUINT is LOOKING
TO TITLE SERIES GAMES

NHRS HUTCHINSONS Corby display
possible they
formidable unlimited in
championship picture and other clubs
strength, the Corby does
its feet
Evening star., 1924-12-12
HARVARD SIX VICTOR.

, BOSTON, December 12.-The Har-
ward hockey team defeated Massachu-
sotts institute of Technology, s to 3,
last night.
Evening star., 1924-12-12

Then he will be another boy
in yWir 'ghhorhood To ride a
la FRANCE Bicycle. For over
- years this wheel has been
supreme in its field. and today
II is still leading. Ask dad-ft
is almost n ''sure shot" he rode
a IA FRANCE when a boy. lie
knew how GOOD il was then.
We'll guarantee this wheel TO he
even better nav. We also carry
the
The Washington times., 1924-10-11
HIGHWAY IS
PROVING BOON
To SUBURBS
Homes Going UP BY The Score
and Traffic Is on The
Increase

Dealers III nearby Virginia real
estate report that nothing has con
tfibuted more to the popularization
De these suburbs as high-class resi-
Dental communities than the work
which has been completed on the
Lee Highway, the new Southern
tfanscontinental auto route leading
out Of Washington over the Key
Bridge.
Traffic between washington and
Falls Church has increased many
fold since the completion last spring
Or the stretch Of concrete roadway
ID Falls Church Now concrete
has been laid from Falls Church
nearly to historic Fairfax Court
House and soon one win be able to
drive over the best roads from
washington to the Luray Cayerns
and thence on to the famous ShenS
andoah Valley Pike.
1T Is difficult to Overestimate
the value Of good roads to a COM
Nnunity or to b State, said Mrs.
Ruby lie Ainar, Arlington county
real estate woman, In commenting
on the Lee Highway. Mrs. Minar
recently began the development and
sale Of Lee Heights, d new suburb
adjoining the grounds Of the Wash
aflgton Golf and Country Club.
Necessity Of Good Roads
''An essential, Of course, In subur-
ban development work." she said,
EDS to give the purchasers the mod
ern improvements they would have
ia the city. But it is likewise just
as important they have good roads
and easy access to the community
which is to be their future home.
I'VE were fortunate In the first
place iii our ability to obtain such
8 fine tract Of lond as Lee Heights
right In the midst Of the Country
Club section Of Arlington county
overlooking the city from an eIe-
walton OF 400 feet. But we are com
PEELED to give credit to the Lee
Highway, not only for the import
The Washington times., 1924-10-11

One of the most beautiful Subdivisions IN this section recently
photographed from The The picture shows Tie lay 81 the
land md close proximity q he property y TIE heart Of the
city.
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the purpose ana today me worn
usacadsni sap between us ara wash
lngton II a. siehteen.foot cOilcretss
road.
we then called i. bond election
III the two districts between Falls
Church and Fairfax Court House
The campaign Was hot one, the
opposition was very strong You
Joined lis ana met the opponents
III debats we voted S275 900 bonds
and today the grading is done. and
the concrete 8 being poured and
an eighteen foot concrete road ID
already completed and open for
traffic FOR tWosthirdB of the dis.
lance. We expect to celebrate the,
opening Or this entire streteh III
Lee Highway from Washington 20
Fairfax Court House III December.
In Il had not been for Lee Highway.
Association we would today be
where we were three years ago..
Since the location OF the Les
Highway was definitely determined
three years ago scores Of houses,
costing from $4,000 to $25,0O0 each
have been erected along and ada
cent to this splendid road between
here and Washington. More than
sA dozen splendid residences have
been built along the mile sap that
was constructed by the aid of tho
loan of our citizens last year.
IN addition to this many old
buildings have been rexmOdeled, not.
ably the Washing tom Virginia Rail.
wav station at East Falls Church.
which has been converted at q cOet
81 about $4,000 to an attractive
and serviceabIe public station that
excites the praise and admiration
Of every one ana q y great aasot
to our town.
.aThe Falls Church Bank organized
eighteen years ago has been occupy
ling rented quarters waiting Tor /
definite location Of permanent high
way through the town and i'm
lmediately upon the location Of TIL
Lee Highway, purchased & cOrne
H on the Lee Highway and Alexandra;
4 ana LeeBburg Pike occupied by
i diereputabIe old shack and is erect
4 Ing on the site and win have COM
lpleted ~ November D. fifty thou
sand dollar, two story, stone build
| fng. which ii credit to any com
munity, the second story u which
WIN IS occupied by the G. and r
Telephone exchange.
These are only 3 few O6 the benz
fits the community has derived from
l the location Of the Lee Highway
i Real estate agents can tell Of on,
4 thousand per cent increase IN sale
| and one hundred per cent increasl
I'm value IL property along the I'M
of this road iii the last two years
land / do not hesitate to say tina
Ito your splendid management an.
industry, as head Of the associa
The Washington times., 1924-10-11
New Tract Opened IN Lee Heights
WHEN ROOSEVELT RODE TO WARRENTON

There was no Lee Highway then; only frozen and
deeply furToWed roads over which the horses Of the
Presidents gallant little band struggled with painful
difficulty.
Roosevelt had stirred up q tempest Of mitigation
among army and navy officers by his order for rigorous
riding tests He determined to prove that his order
was not unreasonable.
He picked day in January 19O9-in the dead of
wintec-for his memorable ride to Warrenton Virginia
Using relays Of horses the President and his aides
made the round trip, distance of 1O4 miles, III IL
hours, the latter stages of the return journey being
in inky darkness and in the face Of binding sleet
storm
With Roosevelt on that ride were DIR. Presley M.
Rixey then Surgeon General and White House physi-
clan, Dr.. Cary T. Grayson, naval aide, and Captain
Archie Butt, military aide.
The old Aqueduct bridge over which Roosevelt. set
out fifteen years ago has been replaced by the $685.
600 Francis Scott Key memorial bridge.
macadam and concrete fhoroughfare, the route Of
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ant advantages It has brought 10
Cllr own community 81 Lee Heights,
but % the territory beyond us.
In Lee Heights and all along
the Lee Highway Tor miles beyond
tle, new homes are going up. 90.
incident with this great increase
ia building there has come an fl.
crease III land values, afi Inevitable
consequences. AS the DEVELOPMENT
progresses we may look for sttlI
more spectacular increases just as
ia any hfgh-class ana especially at
tractive section once II II opened
To the hcme-seei king public.
arlington county, which before
the war WIS rather overlooked az 81
desirable residential suburb. seems
now to be coming III for more than
its share Of improvements and nd
vantages. "A year ago last Janu-
airy, the new Francis Scott Key
Memorial Bridge Joining Arlington
county with Washington WIS open
ed to traffic. This, III Itself. was
q great boon 70 the county.
Projects on Foot.
Nov. there IL projected the si4,-
O0O, 900 Arlington Memorial Bridge.
which viii span the Potomac only 81
short distance from the Key bridge
and which III expected 20 be nIae
ok the most imposing memorials of
all time. Joined To these great pub
lie improvements, ii the circuYrr
stance be the Governments interest
IN the DEVELOPMENT and heautifica-
3tion OF the Potomac shores between
Washington and Graf Falls.
And, more recently. the sugges-
ton has been made that the Cow
eminent take over several thousand
acres In the mountains about Luray,
"a region hardly surpassed In scenic
splendor, and make of this tract b
National Park. The completion Of
the Lee Highway To Isllray will
place this section within a few
hours drive Of Washington.
Al high tribute to the effective work
done by Doctor s. M. Johnson, gen.
eral director Of the Lee Highway
Association was paid IN d letter re-
Gently sent Doctor johnson by Nj.
E Church, vice president 0E the
Fails Church bank, and for many
years leading real estate dealer
OF that section. Mr.. Church in his
letter, reported that the completion
Of the highway had encouraged many
public projects, had increased realty
values III many cases as high As
100 per cent and sales 1000 per
cent. His letter said in part:
Praises Association.
Feeling that some recognition
should be accorded you and your
splendid Lee Highway Association
for what you have been able to ac.
complish IN securing a splendid con-
crete and Tnacadam highway through
The Washington times., 1924-10-11

our county and the adjoining county
Of Arlington to Washington, desire
to say that three years ago the citi. |
gens Of Falls Church, Va, eight
miles from Washington became in
tefested In Lee highway. The merit
winter, upon request Of Lee High
way Association the general assem-
ply Of Virginia included our road
III the State highway system, and
The Washington times., 1924-10-11

ties for the construction Of any part
Of the State highway system pro-
vided the money be loaned to the
State, to be repaid without interest
as State and Federal funds became
available. Our Arlington ai3fax
county Lee highway unit resolved
to see what could he done. Within
b short time we induced q number
OF individuals to loan $4,000 fur
The Washington times., 1924-10-11
BUILD AT YOUR CONVENIENCE

Whether propose build time the future is the Of
WISDOM 60 select site without further delay Now have
choice location Later Of the better locations viii be
Now the which
the market months the cost al probability will
already i year. !.
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no More Lots Are Added to
Country Club SUB iDisiion

IN
d
passed and admired this .4
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DRIVE OUT TOMORROW

from the Lee
ain "
Sunday ndE ekD Day all eornna
il his car will the