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Evening star., 1925-01-05

The squad will start work, under
Coach Richard J. Glendon, about Feb
ruary /, using the machines and tank
at first and getting on the water as
soon as conditions permit. The work
during the Fall and early Winter has
been much more extensive and bene-
fetal than usual.
In Two Big Rcgattas.
The Navy will have it's crew in the
American Henley, at Philadelphia on
May 80, and the Poughkeepsie Re
gatta on June 20, it's oarsmen after
the race travelling by rail to the Pa
cfic coast to join their ships of the
Summer practice squadron.
There is besides an excellent sched-
ule of dual and three-cornered races.
The season will open on April 25, with
Massachusetts Tech at Annapolis. On
May ., the Navy crew will row at
Princeton, and on May %, Harvard
and Syracuse will oppose the ACad-
emy at Annapolis.
Races may also be scheduled for
May 9 and 16. The University of
Pennsylvania is a possibility for one
of these dates, but as it meets the
Z y
Poughkeepsie regattas its usual visit
to Annap,o may not take place this
year.
The Navy's great period in rowing
was covered by the year 1920 when,
under the elder GIendon. it won the
Olympic championship. and the years
1921 and 1922 when, under the same
coach, it took firsts at Poughkeepsie.
Took Charge in 1923.
The junior Glendon, Richard J., took
hold in 1923. His crew had a good
year, winning all of its preliminary
races and rowing second to Wash
ington at Poughkeepsie. Last year,
for some reason. things did not move
smoothly, though the midshipmen
rowed a good race in the Olympic
tryouts, being beaten only by Yale
and the Navy graduates.
The younger Glendon's work with
the crew of 1928, his first varsity
aggregation, was particularly credit
able, as he had to build almost an
entirely new eight, all of the regulars
of the previous year except one hav-
ing graduated.
Glendon, jr., will have this year a
number of the midshipmen who row
ed in his plebe crew of 1922, the first
crew which he coached. There Will
be a number of others with two or
one years experience. In fact, he
will have plenty of the strongest and
most experienced kind of college oars
| men, and has his big chance to put a
crew in the position finally achieved
by his father.
Evening star., 1925-01-05
NOTRE DAME TIRED
OF -FOUR HORSEMEN"

SAN FRANCISCO, January 5.-The
practice of defining the backfeld of
the Notre Dame foot ball team as
"the four horsemen" has drawn con-
demnation from Leo Sutliffe, manager.
In statement to a newspaper, he
said:
IF you want to do something for
US and for Notre Dame that we
would appreciate more than anything
else, please forget about this Internal
-four horsemen' business.
Were all sick and tired of it,
Notre Dame is a team, not a col
lection Of four horsemen and seven
mules"
Jim Crowley, one of the famous
Notre Dame backfield stars, is in the
st. Francis Hospital here recovering
from nervous collapse which he
suffered on the train bringing the
squad from Pasadena.
Crowley so. through the New Year
game apparently in good shape. He
was taken from the train to the
hospital, where It was said that his
condition, though improved, prob
ably would not permit him to leave
for South Bend with the team today.
His breakdown was attributed to
overstrain.
Charlie Stuhldreher, another of the
stars, and Walter Camps all-Ameri-
can quarterback, arrived on crutches,
with his leg in cast, but was able
to accompany the squad on the tour
Of entertainment. y bone in his
ankle was broken early in the game
but, Spartan-like, he played until the
final gun.
Asked about the report that he
had been invited to coach for New
York University Stuhldreher admit
ted that he had been approached on
the subject but said there had been
no negotiations yet. He indicate ted
that he would not be averse to
coaching after his graduation in the
Spring.
Several members of the Rockne
team bore marks of the Pasadena
fray as they were llonized by
alumni and foot ball enthusiasts.
Evening star., 1925-01-05

Coming to the seventeenth hole it
was apparent that Boyd would have
splendid chance to equal his rec
ord. But-a much more astounding
fact-Brady and DiegeI both had the
same chance.
1 wasn't in it with the three Of
them. My golf was good, but it
wasn't record breaking.
All Boyd, Brady and Diegel need
ed was to get a pav on the seven
teenth and q. par on the eighteenth
to make a trio of 66s.
The seventeenth calls for drive
and a mashie pitch. All the boys got
good drives, with Diegel having the
longest one, Brady next and Boyd
next.
Boyd, being farthest away, was
first to shoot. He made up for hav
ing the shortest drive by laying Il
beautiful pitch two feet from the
cup, for a. sure birdie 3. Brady
next dropped his ball 80 feet from
the flag. Diegel followed with the
most unfortunate shot of the three
pitch that placed him on the green
buS left him with a 50-foot putt.
But there was where the fireworks
began. Leo, undismayed, ran down
Evening star., 1925-01-05

In my case, however, although a
feeble childhood was succeeded by a
period of comparative robustness, this
latter did not last. The time came
when fresh ailments developed that
made my earlier misfortunes seem
trivial. These persisted until a short
time before I won the championship.
As a baby was understood and lack
ing in vigor. Then when l was years
old had an accident that threatened to
end my life.
Falls INTO Boiling Starch.
Riding my hobby horse in my parents
home in a suburb of Manchester. Eng
land. backed against a big stone basin
In which my mother was mixing boiling
hot starch. while her attention was
directed elsewhere, and I fell into the
mixture. The scalds which ] received
left marks which are still on my body. l
was long in the most critical condition
it being doubtful whether l would live
or die. For two years I was, so to
speak, ION my back" unable to take
part in childish pastimes.
Inclined to be small in stature I was
/ believe, additionally handicapped in
my growth by this accident. So when
finally began to take part in the
neighborhood games | was not so
robust as my playmates. l had always
with me my mothers injunction to "be
careful of myself.
My spine had been affected. too, and
| was highly nervous, a condition of
which have not yet thoroughly rid my
self.
Nevertheless, | played a little foot
ball and cricket as the years passed.
was ambitious to do more. but my ac-
tiVity was circumscribed by my condi-
ton and my parents watchfuness.
Then, in my 18th year, an event oc-
CURED that was to affect the whole
course of my life.
Vista Through Fence.
We played our cricket and foot
ball games in open ground. adjacent
to the school I attended. Beyond the
foot ball field was the nine hole
course of the Clayton Golf Club
Sometimes a foot ball would be kick
ed over the high fence that sur
rounded the course and it would be
necessary to retrieve it. One day the
gate was opened to me so that I
could recover a ball and 1 got my
first glimpse of the then, for me,
mysterious Scotch sport.
My curiosity was piqued On a
succeeding Saturday | went with a
chum to peek through the afore-
mentioned fence and get a better idea
of what was going on upon the links
As luck would have it, there was
a shortage of caddies that day. Two
members came up to the first tee
faced with the prospect of having
to carry their own clubs. Then they
saw us. We Were invited to climb
over the high fence and make our
selves useful. We responded with
alacrity.
Before the. day was ended l had
been permanently stung by the golf
Ing bug. The six pence I earned, add
ed to others that came later, was used
to acquire a cheap lofter, a club
that approximates the mashie of to-
day. subsequently L acquired
brassie, also of poor quality, but
greatly to be treasured in my undis-
eliminating mind
Thence ensued a period of complete
Evening star., 1925-01-05
CHICAGO SWIM MERS
AFTER FIVE RECORDS
By the Associate Press.

By the Associated Press.
Five world records will be sought
by Illinois Athletic Club swimmers in
the trl-color pool at Chicago Thurs
day night. Johnny Weissmuller will
go after the 50-yard and 100-meter
free-style records. SybiI Bauer will
try for a new 220-yard backstroke.
Ethel Lackie will attempt a new
mark in the 100-yard free style and
Conrad S. Mia will seek the 8S0-yard
backstroke.
Kncass, captain of the University
of Pennsylvania basket ball team
leads the scorers of the Eastern In
tercollegiate League, in which only
one contest has been played. He made
10 points against Yale at Philadelphia
Saturday night.
Ed Heck) Garvey of Holyoke
Mass, former foot ball lineman at
Notre Dame, appears in his third pro-
fessional pugilistic contest in New
York tonight, facing Zen Smith of
New Jersey, heavyweight.
An offer of $500 n day to ride in tho
February six-day bicycle race at Chi
Cago has been cabled Maurice Brocco,
Italian crack. Brocco refused to
Chicago races.
Steve Donoghue, English jockey,
who came to America and rode Pa
pyrus to defeat by Zev, under Earl
Sande, finished third in victories on
the British tracks this season. f. c.
Elliott was the leader among the lit
tie fellows. Archibald, the American
who has been riding European horses
for several years, is tenth in the list
for 1924.
With ten-rOund bouts legally pos
sible now in California, boxing pro-
moters are making a scramble to OBJ
tain the services of high class fight
ers to top their opening cards. What
appears to be the most attractive
headliner to date is the announcement
that "Bermondsey" Billy Wells, well
terweight champion of Great Britain
will show in San Francisco Friday in
an eight-round event. His opponent
will be Chick Roach of Vallejo.
Wells is in Los Angeles.
Sam FraucfsCO noSsesseS tho only
Evening star., 1925-01-05

HOtC can players be taught to handle
q SUiftly thrOtCn ball!
Basket Ball Coach, Northwestern L.
!; X x
The best way to teach players
this important basket ball point is
to have them practice under game
conditions. In preliminary prac-
ticc teach them to relieve the shock
of swiftly thrown ball, by letting
the arms, hands and body ''give with
the ball" If you find that players are
not handling the ball well during
scrimmages, tell them TO keep their
eyes on 1T a little more closely. Soon,
however, they must learn to handle
the ball without consciously looking
at IL. because "a player who is con-
stantIy watching the ball fOrgets
about other things. 4 good pair of
basket ball hands is great asset
to a player who wishes to handle
the ball well.
riobt ACsy +al I,t-
Evening star., 1925-01-05
PENN QUINT STARTS
CAMPAIGN WITH WIN
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, January 5.-Pennsyl-
vania. winner of four successive
championships in the Eastern Inter
collegiate Basket Ball League from
1918 to 1922, attained leadership in this
years race by winning the first con-
test of the schedule from Yale at
Philadelphia Saturday night, % to IT,.
Last year the Quakers and the Ellis
were last in the final standing, each
winning three games and losing seven.
while the Cornell five fought through
10 the title.
This week three more of the league
quintets will go into action, with
Columbia facing Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia tomorrow, while Satur-
day finds Princeton and Columbi
meeting in New York and Yale play
ing Dartmouth at Hanover, n. II.
The Navy, which is not a member
of the intercollegiate circuit. Will
tackle two of the league teams during
the week, playing Yale today and
Penn on Saturday, Annapolis being
the scene of both contests.
Evening star., 1925-01-05
MEEHAN'S RESIGNATION
ACCEPTED BY SYRACUSE

SYRACUSE, y. y, January 5.-Ath-
letic officials at Syracuse University
have announced that Charles F.
tChicR) Meehan, for five years head
foot ball coach. had presented his
resignation to the foot ball committee
and that the committee had decided
to accept with regret.
Coach Meehan's release from SYRIA
cuse his friends asserted, opens the
way for his formal acceptance of an
offer TO coach the foot ball teams at
New York University.
Meehan, however, refused to dis
cuss his future plans.
NEW YORK, January 5.-New York
University officials say that nothing
further had developed in the admitted
effort to obtain the services of
Charles +. (CRick Neehan, Syracuse
University coach, as director of foot
ball to succeed Tom Thorp.
Evening star., 1925-01-05

that long putt for a birdie 5.
Brady, sizing up his 30-foot putt
carefully, also proceeded to hole out
for ). Boyd, far from having
an edge on the other fellows, with a
solitary chance not only to equal but
better the course record was com
PEELED to sink his ball to keep up
with the others.
This he did. Then, crowning an
effort of years. he made the last
hole in par for a record br eaking
65. But Brady and Diegel, sticking
firmly at his side, attained the same
mark.
The peculiar thing about it was
that neither Mike nor Leo had ever
been on the Fox Hill course before
That surely was a great round.
was 10 strokes behind the others
with a rs, but 1 had some pretty
good holes myself All in all, be-
tween us we copped off &c brides and
one eagle during the Is holes.
In the afternoon I got 6S. But
Diegel was the star of the day. lie
followed up his 65 In the morning
with 50 Ia the afternoon. sivIns
him a fo: :vF So holes.
Evening star., 1925-01-05
STILL SEEKS
COACH FOR BASE BALL

WILLIAMSTOWN, January 5.--No
announcement of the choice of a base
ball coach to succeed Jack Coombs
at Williams College has yet been
made, although it is known that a
contract has been offered Andy Coax
ley, former Holy Cross and big league
star, who has been in charge of the
Column bia nine for several years past
Coakley still is under contract with
Columbia, and unless he succeeds in
obtaining his release Williams may
be unable to obtain his services.
1t is understood that Coakley is
anxious to return to Williams, where
he formerly coached the Purple nine,
turning out some of the best teams
in the colleges history a dozen years
ago.
Evening star., 1925-01-05
MIDSHIPMEN TO COMPETE
In TWO OF BIG RECATTAS
Will Have Its Eight in Henley and Poughkeepsie
Evens-AlsO Will Contest in Other Races
Has Wealth of Material

A NNAPOLIS January 5Thc Academy wi1m
~ mined effort back this Spring the the
The outlook extremely the Navy
of las
of
the will
Evening star., 1925-01-05
GREAT FINN IS FAXORITE
IN ONE OF TWO RACES
Figured TO be Victor in 5 5,OOO-Meter Contest, But
Unlikely to Score at Mile-Latter to Offer
Visitor Difficult Problems
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

EW YORK January 5.-Predcions the
less liable than
results foot ball This is because
with individually unit of Yes, track
simpler granting plenty acu-
ation
Now Paavo Nurmi the Finnish distance
the Finnish Athletic
Club the Madison Square Garden night will
indoor track annals He will the 50meer in the
Evening star., 1925-01-05
U. S. SKATERS INVITED,

CHICAGO, January 5.-The United
States has been invited to send a team
of five ice skaters to oslo, Norway,
next month to participate in a world
championship tourney. The following
American Olympic skaters are being
considered for places on the team
Charles Jewtraw, Lake Placid, y. y:
Richard Donovan, ST. Paul; Valentine
Balls, Utica, n. Y, and Joe Moore.
New York city.
Evening star., 1925-01-05
GRID STARS ON QUINT.

DUBUQUE, Iowa, January 5.-A
Notre Dame basket ball team com
posed of Harry Stuhldreher, Elmer
Layden, Don Miller and Jim Crowley,
the famous backfeld of the Notre
Dame foot ball team, and Capt. Adam
Walsh, will play the Columbia Col
legc quintet here February I. in a
game dedicating the local schools
$500, 900 gymnasium.
Evening star., 1925-01-05

But nothing like the Oldfeid af-
fair ever happened, and I am quite
sure that he thrilled me to the ut0
most, Incidentally, his act lost
race for me and gave him lead .
I'm m series of five matches Uhich
we drove.
It happened at Providence. r. l., in
1917. when I was driving the Packard
twin six-one of the fastest cars in
the world at that time. and Barney
was handling his Miller-made, egg
shaped Golden Submarine, built to
protect him in case of accident py
being completely inclosed.
We were 1Hatched at Providence for
three events. at 5, Is and 25 miles.
The track was partly concrete, but
not banked enough to stand anything
like our maximum speed. However
was so much faster than Barney
that though 1 could beat him with
ease IN every match.
But / had figured without my
host, as the saying goes. for Bar
uey won the first heat, and 7 hnd
to go my limit to get the second.
We broke the track record in each-
so you mny see what chances we
were taking.
In the last heat I went out deter
mined not to let Barney get me and
established a slight lead early. BY
experiment / saw l could outrun him
on the stretches, so did not try to get
far from him early. Then, when /
tried to get in front for a safe mar
gin I found the track would not per
init me to use enough of my speed
and Oldfeld always caught me on
the turns, though ] got d little lead
in the straightaways. We rocked
along in record time to the very last
lap, when, on the back stretch, l let
out and established what l thought
to be safe lead. / held this around
the turn and started down the home
straightaway, seemingly a sure win
ner.
] always drive tri7e wide on a
dirt track, but this was so well
banked that 1 pulled down on the in
side, leaving just barely room for a
car to get by me on the rail, pro-
viding it was hugging that rail. I
glanced back to see Barney on the
Evening star., 1925-01-05
MY GREATEST THRILL IN SPORT
BY RALPH DeP4LM4,
One of the worlds greatest auto-racing drivers.

n n Y oldest and greatest rival gave the most
IVl stirring moments of my life, for he came as
numbering himself any racing driver
ever did, to escape without scratch. l refer to
Barney Oldheld the first OF the great American
riders and one of the pubics strongest favorites.
Of course I have had many wonderful thrills
in my life OF racing-from accidents which crippled
me to losing than $l50,000 in purses through
being j1nXed at times when it seemed events had
been For instance, many might think the
greatest thrill of my life when | had only one
lap to go for the $4,000 prize at Indianapolis in
1916 and yet lost the race because OF frozen
motor.
Evening star., 1925-01-05

bliss for me. Practicing in the open
space at the schoolhouse and caddy-
ing of evenings and on Saturdays at
the Clayton Club gave me the exer-
else l needed-eXercise. too. exactly
suited to me. Gradually I became
more and more vigorous
Nature and my earlier accident had
decreed' that 1 never should be more
than little man. At 10 / reached a
weight of 12S pounds. That was
heaviness for me. In recent years
have been considerably. lighter than
that. I am in fact the smallest man
that ever held a national champion
ship in this country or Great Britain.
But if 1 was small, my health finally
had come TO be good. 1t continued so
until l left England to come to the
United States.
As to the strange way in which [
happened to come to this country,
more later For the present let me
say that the change soon produced u
bad turn in my physical condition.
The climate had an unfavorable of-
feet upon me. But, in addition. l was
temperamentaIly untitled and by hab
opposed to the conditions l soon en-
countered as professional at an Amer
lean country club.
Quick Lunches Handicap.
The American custom of hurry was
my undoing. The pressure of my busi-
ness proved too much for me- Bolted
lunches and crowded days undermined
my health. In time I developed chronic
intestinal Inflammation.
This condition became so bad that
before entering a tournament it was
necessary for me to take medicines
to stop the abnormal processes which
distressed me and would otherwise
have forced me off the course. This
was true OF the national open tourna-
ments at the Iverness Club. Toledo,
Ohio, in 1920: at the Columbia Club,
Washington, y. c., in 1921; at Skokie,
Chicago, in 1922, and at Innwood,
Long Island, in 1928.
Additionally, my stomach dropped
down, and all through this period I
was compelled to wear a tightly laced
belt.
My weight fell to 11O pounds, my
nerves were shot to pieces and my
stamina was decreased I could play
well through the early rounds of n
tournament, but the final rounds al
ways caughc me fading away
reached n point where, upon address
ing the ball, l could hardly decide
when to take my club head back.
l participated in none but the most
important events.
After the 1928 open when I had
decided that l could endure the situ-
alton no longer, it was decided that
my tonsils were filing my system
with poison. This diagnosis, followed
by an operation, proved to be correct
soon showed a great improvement.
This was six months before the
national open at Detroit. BY the
time it rolled around I was In better
condition than at any time since
coming to the United States. But
when L stepped on the scales Just
before play began I tipped the beam
at only 1l6 pounds.
Tomorrow; Get u Chance.
Evening star., 1925-01-05
PENN ELECTS WILSON.

PHILADELPHIA, January 5.-Joseph
P. Wilson of Corning, n. V, has been
elected coptain of the 1925 University
of Pennsylvania foot ball squad
The squad is on its homeward journey
from the Pacific coast. Wilson, who has
has been nursing a broken ankle on
the transcontinental trip, is % years
old and junior. He plays right tackle.
Evening star., 1925-01-05
Johnny Farrell Tells:
Three 65s For Record i'm One Afternoon.

ON BOYD the professional has been with
Club Staten Island for IS During long period Of
he held dazzling he
would and did, Tom couldn't better that
Then day exhibition match
Hills Boyd Dege
mediatey started brilliant
history of the stretching
Evening star., 1925-01-05

My office is right behind the mu-
nicipal pier. A breakwater extends
from near the end of the pier to the
shore north of it, forming a sort of
protected lake there. That is where
the ducks We're.
That's quite a thing when you
come to think of ito be able to
look out of your office window al
most any time during the flight
season and watch the ducks. And
they weren't tame or partly tame
ducks, either. They came right out
of the north and probably had never
been so close to city before. But
they came into Chicago and took re-
served seats beside the municipal
pier. They never stayed very long
just long enough to get rested, /
guess. aud ten they'd Ey away and
others would come in.
Evening star., 1925-01-05

And these are the same ducks that
are so wary about your decoys, and
which rise into the air. just out of
range. when they go over your pass.
Which shows that ducks do know
something. [ have seen ducks in
Lincoln Park, Chicago real wild
ducks from the North-that showed
less fear than many ducks show on
the Northern marshes when you are
hunting them.
The ducks know the difference. all
right. That's why duck hunting is
a good sport. You've got to outwit
the ducks. Which also accounts for
the fact that experience is necessary
to a good duck hunter. As Mutt
said to jeff when asked how to train
a dog, You've got 20 know more
than the dog first"
Evening star., 1925-01-05
SOCCERISTS SEEK FOES.

Manager Jones of the Fort Myer
second soccer team wishes to arrange
Games with second string cumbina-
lions of the District. lie can he reach
ed at West 2Ge7.
Evening star., 1925-01-05
INVALID TO GOLF CHAMP
Cyril Walkers Own Story of His Rise.
CHAPTER 2.-FIGHTING SICKNESS.

is of than that the
this should be held
physical shortcomings before
national by Bobby Jones and the national
the OF Jones his weaknesses
still lad
hns nainedn
Evening star., 1925-01-05
THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS
BY WILL III. DIG,
President Izaak Walton League Of America.

COULDN'T get to do much duck hunting
liked do during the Fall But awful lot ducks-saw
them day. big of B1uebls
CanvasbackS and MalrdS them from office
office is the Chicago business district.
No, they They ducks
and
do and hunter has them much the
Evening star., 1925-01-05

Joe Ryan, manager of Trinity Ath-
letic Club, at West 1864, is on the
lookout for games with 135-pound
teams.
Evening star., 1925-01-05

American Railway Express quint
will be host to the Argyles tonight
in the Terminal Il. Il. Y. NJ. c. A.
gymnasium in a game starting at
$3.50 o'clock.
Evening star., 1925-01-05

Boys who wish to join the Ace 100
pound team may report to Manager
Ivan Munich at the Boys y. NJ. G. \.
tomorrow night at 7:1J.