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Evening star., 1926-12-15
COLLEGIATE TOSSERS
TO PLAY BOAT CLUB

ALEXANDRIA, Va. December Is.
Washington Collegiates. one of the
strongest basket ball combinations In
the Capital City. will make their third
appearance on local court tonight
at the Armory Hall, playing the Old
Dominion Boat Club quint at $50
o'clock.
The Collegiates lost a 25.to-24 de-
cision to the st. Mary's Celtics, city
amateur champions, at the Lyceum,
but bested the st. Mary's Seniors in a
closely contested game.
In their last game the Dominion
oarsmen won from the Potomac Boat
Club Of Washington, "a to "a.
Alexandria High School goes to
Manassas. Va, tomorrow afternoon.
where the Swavely Preparatory School
team will be played.
st. Mary's Celtics are to entertain
the Western High quint of Washing
ton here Saturday at the Armory Hall
at $50 pm. st. Mary's Seniors will
play preliminary.
Alexandria Fire Departments eleven
won the city unlimited title, defeating
the Virginia Athletic Club, 6 to 4. In
a preliminary game the Alexandria
Fire Department Props trounced the
Pirate A. c., 13 to 0.
Evening star., 1926-12-15
CROSS-COUNTRY RUN
LIST CLOSES TODAY

Entries close today with Milton l..
Dennis, 1907 Massachusetts, avenue,
for the South Atlantic A. A. U. cross
country championship run. to be held
Saturday afternoon at o'clock over
a six-mile course in Rock Creek Park.
under auspices of George Washington
University.
William Agee, crack barrier of EN-
orywood Athletic Club Of Baltimore,
who has won the event the past two
years, will be in Saturdays jaunt,
along with such outstanding hill-and-
dale men as G. r. Gwynn Of Johns
Hopkins University, Hurd Willett Of
George Washington. Walton Shipley
of Aloysius Club and Sam Martin Of
Dartmouth, a former Western High
star.
other sturdy mixers entered include
James Sternsdorff. Nelson Pierce and
John Dawson of Emorywood Club;
William Baker, Floyd Pomeroy. Ralph
Brown and Sherman johnson OF
George Washington.
There also are a number of men
entered from the Y. M. H. A, South
western Club and Cross-Country Club
of Baltimore.
Wardman Park Hotel has placed
dressing rooms at the disposal Of the
runners.
The race will start from under the
north end Of the Connecticut Avenue
Bridge.
Evening star., 1926-12-15
AMERICAN II. TO BE HOST
TO MARYLAND In OPENER
Game to Dedicate Methodists' New Cym-Old Liners
| Also Play Friday, Opposing Washington and
Lee Team at College Park.

Wilmer has shown how really IN.
telligent he is by changing his mind.
And incidentally, it might be mention
ed right here that there are few bet
ter basket ball coaches than Wilmer
and few men who turn out consistent
ly better quints.
North Carolina State College has
decided to take advantage of the
lengthening of the foot ball season by
the Southern Conference and is try
ing to arrange a suitable game for
December 8. The majority of schools
this far up do not seem to care es-
pecially to extend their schedules be-
yond Thanksgiving day, preferring to
wind up with the traditional contests
in which they have taken part for
years. Incidentally, December 8
around here is likely to find some
very cold weather, though it usually is
nothing compared to that in late No
vember in the northern part of the
Middle West and in Nebraska, Iowa
and Montana. The change in making
it permissible to schedule foot bail
games as late as the second Saturday
after Thanksgiving was made pri-
marily to. help the schools along the
gulf coast, where TO play in Septem-
ber is almost criminal. After next
season, though, it is very probable
that December 3 will find several
schools from this section playing
games in the Far South.
Coach Lou Little of Georgetown is
forgetting about athletics for awhile.
He has left Washington for his home
in Pennsylvania, where he expects to
spend three weeks. He will return to
IN ~ a,-lxy in
is following out what seems to be the
program of most coaches, taking
vacation after the high tension of
three months of foot ball. And, Incl
dentally, after a coach goes through
three months Of what the average
varsity gridiron campaign means he
usually needs a vacation.
A Maryland boy, Harold Bafford
of Solomons. will lead University of
Maryland on the gridiron next Fall.
Bafford, who was regular center dur
ing the recent campaign. and also in
1925, was chosen at a meeting of the
letter men yesterday. He came to the
Old Line School from Charlotte Hall
Military Academy. Bafford is 20
years old and a Junior.
Catholic University dribblers will
strive hard to repulse Washington
and Lee basketers, who visit Brook.
land Saturday night to furnish the
Cardinals their first competition. The.
Generals trimmed the Brooklanders
last Winter, 20 to 18. Among men
likely to be sent into action for the
Cardinals are Eddie Keale, Capt.
Johnny Long, Jim Carney, Ray Foley,
Bill Harvey, Bill Shields, Mccarthy,
Bill Linskey, Jim Kenney and Jute
Alumni of George Washington Uni
through a committee compris-
ng Lewis Moneyway, chairman; Ed
ward Stafford and Harold S. Warner
will entertain members of the 1926
foot ball team and their coaches at
banquet tomorrow night at the La
Fayette Hotel. An interesting pro-
gram is planned.
Evening star., 1926-12-15
GRIDMEN GET READY
FOR TITLE CONTEST

Undisputed possession of the unlim-
tied sandlot gridiron title is the goal
of Waverly and Mohawk gridiron
warriors as they drill for their en-
counter Sunday afternoon at 2:3O
at Clark Griffith Stadium.
The game Is the rubber meeting,
as they have met twice. each winning
victory. Early in the season the
Waverlys triumphed by the margin
of a field goal and a few weeks later
the Hawks turned the tables, win
ming 13 to Z.
Mercury Juniors and Friendship
gridiron warriors will settle a long
standing question of supremacy, and.
incidentally, decide the District 1876
pound championship. in a game to be
played Sunday, probably at Union
League Park. Managers of the teams
will meet tonight to arrange details.
Friendship gridmen will work out to-
night at Fifth and l. streets south
east.
Disputing the claim of the Peerless
eleven to the 115-pound District foot
ball title, the Anacostia Eagles are
seeking a game to settle the question
of supremacy. Cation of the Eagles
may be reached at Lincoln 3133.
Crescents, beaten by st. Stephens
for the 135-pound championship, has
challenged the victors to another
game for Sunday.
Evening star., 1926-12-15
G. W. u. COURT TEAM
TO PLAY HARD LIST

Two games with Catholic Univer-
sity and one each with American and
Gallaudet appear on the George
Washington basket ball card just an
nounced. The Colonials will open
their season at their gym Monday
night, with Washington and Lee fur
nishing the opposition.
Among the formidable members of
the G. w. squad that probably will
get action against the Generals are
Wallace, Bland and Allshouse, for
wards; Viethmeyer and Haun. CEN
ters; Carey. Sapp. Perry and Motyka,
guards.
Games on the Colonial card besides
that with Washington and Lee follow:
December 81, University of Delaware
January g. Gallspdet: II; American Uni,
College College, (Sending..: e vlilanoova; 25, 25,
s,, Eikins; 8; New Yyork uniyersity: Q: Cath.
William and Marv: 23 Catholic University
Tat c. u: 2s. Blue Ridge.
Evening star., 1926-12-15

A NNAPOLIS, December Is
~ The season of rowing at the
"A Naval Academy is being an
4 a ticipated with even greater
interest than usual, as the
showing of the crew during the next
two years will mean much for the
standing OF the Navy in sport In
which il particularly. wishes to excel.
Bob Butler, who assumed charge of
rowing at the beginning of last sea-
son, made fine start, winning all of
his preliminary races and finishing
second to Washington by feet at
Poughkeepsie.
This season he should do even better
work, particularly as the squad Is.
most promising.
Though the coming season will be
an important one. the Navy is looking
forward to 1928, which will be an
Olympic year, and Is trying to pre-
pare for q crew which will be able to
represent this country in the big in
ternational race, as 1t did with sue
cess in 1920. OF course, Yale, the win
ner of 1924, will try to gain this honor.
The Naval Academy has at present
16 men who look of the type from
which strong crews are picked,
though others may develop as the sea-
son progresses. Included in this num-
ber are Tom Eddy, Born, Broadbent
and Bagdanovitch of last years var
sity crew. Eddy is regarded as the
most powerful of the college strokes,
and Is captain. The others are un-
usually powerful and capable.
Lindell, Stukey. Freeman and Oh
sen, strong substitutes last year, are
again on hand. as are Hoerner and
Glein, experienced oarsmen who had
to leave the squad last season on ac-
count of illness Hoerner, center of
the foot ball team and weighing 100
pounds, Is an extremely powerful lad
and perfectly built for an oarsmen.
He was rowing in the varsity last
year when taken i'll. and is expected
to regain his season.
OF the plebe crew Of last season,
the coaches pick Strong, Mcclure,
Lincoln, Anderson and Bowling as
possible varsity material. They are
all strong lads, who picked up the
rowing game we'll last year. Woer-
ner, a very strong and athletic youth
and one of the foot ball tackles last
season, did a little rowing last year,
but will get to work in earnest this
season. BY 1923 he should be a val
liable oarsman.
While the Navy will lose much Of
its material by the graduation of the
class in June, but. fortunately, the
class which entered last year. the
members of which are not eligible for
the varsity this season, contained
much rowing material, and Coach
Butler has picked some 10 or IL who
seem to be of the proper kind for
varsity oarsmen.
Evening star., 1926-12-15
NAVY'S ROWING OUTLOOK
EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT
Four Regular Members of Last Seasons Grew Are
Available and There Are Dozen Other
Clever Oarsmen for Squad.

Butler will start in the tank with
his plebe oarsmen early next month,
and begin work with his varsity squad
two weeks later. Both squads will get
on the waters of the Severn as soon
as weather conditions permit.
There is much regret that the Navy
will not meet Yale this year. but the
season of 1928 will bring them to-
gether in the Olympic tryouts, as
both are ambitious to represent this
country.
The schedule:
April 23-Massachusetts Tech war
sity and Junior varsity at Annapolis.
April 30-University of Pennsyl-
vania varsity, junior varsity and
freshmen at Annapolis.
May 21-Syracuse varsity. junior
varsity and freshmen at Annapolis.
May 28-American Henley at Phil
adelphia.
It is expected that the Navy will
meet Columbia. Princeton, Pennsyi-
vania and Syracuse in the Henley.
and it will also row in the Pough-
keepsie regatta. the date Of which has
not yet been set.
Evening star., 1926-12-15
KIMBALL WILL HANDLE
NINE AT CENTRAL HIGH

school, which made great bid for
the State championship.
In addition to this afternoons game,
Manager Mark Woods of Berwyn has
carded contests as follows:
Saturday, st. Johns at Hyattsville;
Decemmer 20, Tech High at Hyatts.
vile.
January Z. Charlotte Hall, away: 70,
Woodward School, away; II, Dewitt
Prep, away; 21, Charlotte Hall at
Hyattsville.
February 4-Devitt Prep at Hyatts.
vile; IL, Alexandria High at Hyatts-
vile.
Eastern High basketers were to en-.
tertain Glover A. G. this afternoon on
the Lincoln Park floor. Business was
to go to Leonardtown, Md, to meet
Leonard Hall Academy and Central
was to face Strayers Business College
five at the City Club gym in other
games carded today. A game be-
tween GonZaga and Baltimore Poly in
the Monumental City is the only
game of interest to the local school.
boy group listed for tomorroy.
Friday afternoon Western High will
get it's first test under fire playing
host on it's floor to Coach Jerry Park.
er woodward ScnOOl HVe. In Other
Tits in the local schoolboy circle Fri
day, Eastern will play a return game
with st. Johns to whom they lost
recently, on the Saints court. Dewitt
will meet Business in the Stenog.
raphers' gym and Central will jour.
ney to Baltimore to engage Baltimore
City College five in other games on
Friday.
Play in the 135.p0und local prep
school basket ball league will start
January z. Woodward, Friends, Epis-
copal High of Alexandria, and Dew.
lit will comprise the loop. Each team
will play six games and meet the
other twice on home and home
basis. There also Is said to be a
chance Of the five public high schools
forming a 135.pound loop.
Evening star., 1926-12-15
PALACE TOSSERS REST
AFTER BEATING PHILLY

preparation for their clash with Bal
timore tomorrow night in the Monu.
mental City.
Next week they leave Washington
for a trip through the West meeting
the Detroit team and Cleveland. lead.
ing In the pro circuit.
Palace nosed out Philadelphia at the
Quaker City last night by 80 to 81
count. with" Kennedy in the stellar
role He shot two field goals in the
closing minutes Of play to put the
Washington quint in front after they
had trailed the greater part of the
game.
Evening star., 1926-12-15
BY III. C. BYRD.
basket ball begins on
nj

OLLEGE basket ball begins on
N local floors tomorrow night.
University of Maryland's
~ quint comes in town to play
the first game In the new
gymnasium at American University,
the latter using the contest as dedi-
cation Of the building. The game will
start at $50.
American University's team is made
up largely of former local high school
players, and Maryland'S five also has
the most of its strength in men who
formerly held down jobs at Tech,
Eastern or one of the other big schools
that have their homes in Washington.
Maryland also figures in the second
game, as 1t plays Washington and
Lee in the opening contest of the lat
ter's trip. The game with w. and L.
takes place at College Park Friday
night, and then on Saturday night
i Catholic University prizes open it's
sschedule by meeting Washington and
Lee at Brookland.
In the two games it has scheduled
before the holidays, American Univer-
sity and Washington and Lee, Mary
land will be without it's regular GEN.
ter, Donald Adams, who was injured
in the foot ball game with Johns Hop
kins Thanksgiving day and has not
yet sufficiently recovered to be able to
play. Adams cane out of the hospital
in Baltimore last week. and it is said
by the specialist who has him in
charge that he will be all right to en-
gage in games after the holidays.
American University, instead of be-
ing soft" spot with which Mary
land expected it might open its sea-
son, bids fair to pat up real fight
and give the Old Liners perhaps
more than they want. Last night the
American team won its fourth straight
game, defeating Gettysburg at Gettys.
burg. "a to q. Bruce Kessler led the
Washingtonians in scoring, dropping
four goals from the floor. Banta, for.
who used to play at Eastern, both
put up good exhibitions.
Last year AL Wilmer, Princeton
basket ball coach, who, by the way,
is mighty fine fellow, on the occa.
sion of the basket ball game at Col
lege Park between Princeton and
Maryland, disputed for a considerable
time the legality of the huddle sys-
tenn and claimed the Old Liners had
no right to use it as it delayed the
k6oAiS. AA1AAy taAO 6dAitV WChS OA diiN
Maryland won. 1t used the huddle
and got its plays off even more rap
idly than Princeton did with the old
system Of signals. Now here is an ex-
Cerpt from dispatch from Princeton:
"Al Wilmer, line coach on the foot
ball field, inaugurated the huddle sys-
tenn In basket ball here in the first
practice of the Princeton tossers.
This is the first time the huddle has
been used in basket ball by major
Eastern college.
Coach Wilmer has been intimately |
connected with the success of the |
huddle in foot ball as used by Bill |
Roper for the past few years and sees |
no reason why the system cannot be |
used on the basket ball floor before |
each tap-off from center"
Evening star., 1926-12-15
SPRINTER AND SKATER
TO RACE AT SO YARDS

NEW YORK, December Is R).-
Can a runner whip skater at so
yards? The question will be decided
tonight at the Iceland rink when Alan
Helffrich, three times holder of the
National A. A. U. half-mile champion
ship, matches strides with the flash
ing skates of Paul Forsman, holder
of two sprint skating records.
Helffrich, while not a sprinter, is
extremely fast over the short dis
tances.
Evening star., 1926-12-15

ago. incidentally, Or. Peltzer de-
feated the great English runner,
Lowe, in this race which was run
at Stamford Bridge, England. dur
ing the national championships.
Lowe had previously created a
world record of his own when he
bettered Mel Sheppard's time for
600 yards, Lowe did lilo 2-5. Shep.
pards record had lasted 16 years!
Recently a Swedish swimmer
Arne Borg, proved that he was
better swimmer than Weissmuller!
They do say that Borg even slow
ed up and allowed the American
Evening star., 1926-12-15

champion to win the quarter-mile
race in the national championships
at Philadelphia.
France. with Lacoste. has taken
our tennis title, and also has
Borotra, Cochet and Brugoon.
Suzanne Lenglen, who has turn.
ed either pro or con, has been
queen of the courts for the last IL
years. She outclasses all Of her
feminine rivals--including Helen
Wills. Miss Joyce Wethered, the
little English golfer, is without
peeress on the fairways.
Rigoulot, Frenchman. is the
strongest man In the world.
Evening star., 1926-12-15
asket Ball Campaign Here VIII Get Under Way Tomorrow Night
FORDHAM ELEVEN ADDED
TO GEORGETOWN LIST

Georgetown University's 1927
foot ball schedule was rounded out
today with announcement that
Fordham will be met I'm New York
on November 10.
The list now numbers nine
games, although Hilltop officials
have not selected an opponent for
November 20. If that date can be
filed the team will go through a
10.game season.
Evening star., 1926-12-15

Americans have been so success
full in the field of sport that we
sometimes forget that there are
others. It is only when a Nurmi,
or a Hoff comes along that we
tumble to the fact that we are not
altogether unbeatable.
More recently it was DR.. Otto
Peltzer, who startled us--and the
rest of the athletic worldly
breaking the long standing world
record for the half-mile. The good
doctor stepped the half in 1851 3-5
which shattered Ted Meredith's
mark Of 1852 is made 10 years
Evening star., 1926-12-15
DECLINES COAST GAME.

BELLEFONTE, Pa, December IS
R.-Carl G.. Snavely. coach of the
Bellefonte Academy foot ball team,
has announced that the academy had
definitely decided to reject the prop.
osition to play the Tallaloosa, Ala,
High School at Los Angeles, Calf,
either on Christmas or New Year day
Evening star., 1926-12-15
PRO COURT LEAGUE.
STANDING OF TEAMS

LAST NIGHTS RESULTS.
Washington. 30: PHILADELPHIA, 27.
Chicago, 45: Baltimore. 20.
Cleveland. 26: Fort Wayne, 25.
GAME TONIGHT.
Philadelphia at New York.
GAMES TOMORROW.
Washington at Baltimore.
Rochester ut Cleveland.
GAMES FRIDAY.
Rochester at Cleveland.
New York at Detroit.
GAME SATURDAY.
New York at Rochester.
Evening star., 1926-12-15

Hayden. Selbe. Fouls--Joliff. Rice.
bel.
With four members of last years
varsity squad in their lineup, senior
basket ball tosSerS at George Wash.
Angton University outclassed the Soph-
omores, ~ to IL, in the first round of
the interclass tourney played last
night in the II street gymnasium,
while the Freshmen nosed out the
Juniors, II to IL.
The Freshrlan-Junior tilt was the
first on the double program. This
was anybody's game until the last
quarter, when the Freshmen pushed
forward to win by five-point margin.
Marion Crumley registered Is of the
winners points, while Louise Om-
wake proved the backbone of the
Uunior squad.
The Seniors were much stronger in
the center field than their opponents.
who proved accurate in the foreneld
when scoring opportunities were OF
fered. But these We're rare, Tor the
ball was kept at the other end OF the
field two-thirds Of the time. Much
credit for the Senior victory was due
20 the excellent teamwork of Misses
jackson and Massey, centers, who fed
the ball successfully to their forwards
and put UP an alert defensive game.
The four class managers, elected
prior to the opening of the series,
are Seniors. Ermyntrude Walden and
Katherine Shoemaker; Juniors,
Louise Omwake; Sophomores. Julia
Denning; Freshmen. Naomi Crumley.
|. Tomorrow night the Seniors ana
Freshmen will meet to decide the
interclass title and the two losing
teams will settle the argument Tor
kiosers honors," according to Vlr-
xtnia Hopkins, coach.
Immediately after the holidays the
varsity squad will be picked from
the ranks of the 81 goods out Tor
hasket ball and an intercollegiate
schedule Of five matches will be run
off.
Evening star., 1926-12-15

TWIC K ENHAM, MIDDLESEx.
England. December 15 @.-Cam-
bridge defeated oxford, 80 to, s, in
their annual intervaristy rugby foot
ball game. "a
Evening star., 1926-12-15
Tine-Ups and Summaries.

c,,sxt,tutions--Mllho for Sewers. Om-
Snr McKenna McKenna for omwake.
Gosis--Crtmley 60 t%os freeso; 1n vsSs Sowers 15
u I1e5 ones. / free). Referee-Miss Vir-
gina pos,,,ons Sopb's f36)
Evening star., 1926-12-15
Snnh,s f3Rl
seniors (4l. PosItions.

tsnbstituticns-Cate for Greasiay. stewart ysa
~ Gefe. Walden for Young. Young tor jack
Evening star., 1926-12-15

~ ALVARY M. E. basketers
4 scored an overwhelming vic.
tory over the Central Presby-
terian Church sextet Mon.
day night in the opening
game of e the inter-church series,
played in the Calvary gym. The
count was SO to 4.
Superior court experience coupled
with efficient team work gave the
winners a decided advantage over the
Presbyterian tossers, who have but
recently formed their team. Calvary
bumped into an early lead and the
visitors never offered a serious threat
to overcome 1t.
Misses Jolliff, Rice and CLANCY
divided scoring honors for Calvary.
Capt Selbe and Miss Hayden put in
the two baskets credited to the losers.
Evening star., 1926-12-15

Hayden. Selbe. Fouls-Joliiff, Rice.
Reserves-Calvary. CLANCY. Chiffon. Kim
Evening star., 1926-12-15

n K IKE KELLEY has decided to
M give up coaching Central
IVt Highs base ball team. and S.
/ i T. Kimball, a former Eastern
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-04-23
Warder Roberts
Recovering From
Serious Accident

Mr.. and Mrs. Orris w. Roberts re.
turned last evening from Wilton
where they had been to visit their
son, Warder Roberts, who was ser.
iously injured Sunday by the cxplo-
sion Of a shotgun. The injured man
is getting along nicely. considering
the nature Of the injuries, and u
complete recovery is being hoped for,
He was badly burned about the face
and was temporarily blinded BY the
accident, but one eye has now clear.
ed and the attending physician as
sures him that the sight Of the othel
eye will be restored
Mr.. Roberts, who is Standard Oil
salesman for the Wilton Pingree and
Wilton Underwood districts, had beer
called to Regan by his agent Sunday
and when they had completed the
work at hand they stepped into the
yard to try out shotgun. The weap'
on exploded in Mr.. Roberts hands.
Mr. and Mrs. o. w. Roberts had
driven to Wilton Sunday to visit
their son and, finding that he had
gone to Regan, continued their jour
ney in that dir,t.tion. Before reach
ing Regan they met Mrs. Warder
Roberts bringing her injured husband
home. He was taken into his faith.
er's car and rushed to Wilton, where
DIR. Thelan dressed the wounds.