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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30
MUCH POLO PLANNED
FOR D. C. NEXT YEAR

Washington will enjoy its most sue
cessful season in polo in 1927 if plans
of the War Department Polo Asso-
ciation carry.
Efforts are being made by the as
ISOLATION to secure the Southeastern
ircuit tournament for this city.
which would bring here teams from
Philadelphia. Rumson, N j., and
other points, and would mean that
local devotees of the game that are
asst increasing would probably see
he best brand Of polo ever exhibited
IN the oval in Potomac Park.
Col. Nelson Margetts, one Of the
most experienced as we'll as skillful
players in this section of the country,
has been reelected team captain of
he association for the coming year.
His efforts have been a signal factor
IN the success of the league during
he past few years A number Of new
ponies are now in training for next
season, which will begin about April
8, and these are expected to improve
the quality of play.
Officers Of the association point out
that the future success of polo here
depends largely upon the support ac-
corded by the public. No admission
is charged to any games played, all
funds for conducting the sport being
raised through the annual polo ball
held each Easter Tuesday at the New
Willard.
Hearty support for the ball is urged
on the part of the public, that suf.
ficient money may be raised to bring
the intercircuit tournament to Wash
ington.
During the past season civilian
teams from Baltimore and Middle
burg. Va, returned for competition
here. and in 1927 it is expected that
more outside tours will be here If suf-
flcient funds are provided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30
WESTERN HIGH FIVE
ROUTS G. W. FROSH

With Pee Wee Walker and Buscher
dong most of the scoring Western
High basketers routed George Wash.
ington Freshmen in a 58-to-16 tilt yes
terday, but Coach Dan Ahearn's hardy
tossers were expected to encounter
sitter opposition today when they
were to face combination made up
of former Western court stalwarts.
Roland Dulin, Ray CARRIER, Henry
Lamar. Heagy and Hugh McDiarmid
were expected to represent Westerns
alumni
Old grads of Central High will strive
to avenge defeats of the past few
Winters when they engage the Blue
and White varsity Saturday afternoon
at O'Clock n the annual alumni
varsity game in Central gym. Play
Will start at 2 o'clock. Eugene Casey,
treasurer of the c Club, is assembling
strong team in an effort to humble
Bert Coggins' present hopefuls. There
Will be no admission charge.
After trailing. 8 to II, at the half,
Tech High basketers rallied sharply
in the closing half, and with Berger,
their big gun, swept to d 25-to-24
triumph over Hyattsville High yes.
terday afternoon on the National
Guard Armory floor in the Maryland
town. The Manual Trainers uncover
ed a superior passing game to over.
come their rivals. Berger. who scored
q total Of Is goals, Gagged the court
goal that gave his team victory near
the end of the battle. Jenkins, center,
with 10 points, was HyattsvilIes high
est scorer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30
MASTER few PLAYS
IS GRID TEAMS PLAN

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 3d.
College foot ball stars from the East
md Midwest, who meet a Western
eleven in the annual East-West
,harity game here New Year day,
hope to win by mastering a limited
a series of complicated formations in
which many of them figured as key
men last Fall.
Eight plays, including two pass
formations, comprise the Easterns'
offensive, it was indicated yesterday
when Navy Bill' Ingram of Annap-
oils, organizer of the squad and head
coach, arriS ed from Chicago and
Immediately ordered an intensive
signal drill. The team went through
more than three hours of hard prac-
tice as evidence of it's efforts to
retrieve honors lost year ago when
the West won by touchdown.
Coach Grin T.. Hollingberry also
sent his Western eleven through a
long session and from the number of
plays rehearsed it is apparent that
the West will have a more varied
attack than the East.
Following the practice the Western
team selected wild Bill Kelley, Mon
tana star, as captain for the game
Kelly was the leading point scorer
in the Pacific Coast Conference this
year.
A leader for the Eastern eleven will
not be chosen until an hour before
game time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30
PALACE FIVE PLAYS
IN AKRON TONIGHT

Touring the Midwest in a series Of
exhibition games. George Marshalps
Palace Club, professional basketers,
will engage Akron tonight and Canton
tomorrow evening"
Palace will not return to Washing
ton until January 9, when the pro
basketers stack up against the Balti-
more Orioles at the Arcadia. In the
interim they will meet the Cleveland
Rosenblums, who dropped a game last
night in Brooklyn to the Original
Celtics Of New York, winners last
week over the Palace five. Celtics left
little doubt of their superiority over
Cleveland, winning by 35 to 20, to
administer their first defeat this year
to the Rosenblums.
Next Monday night the Washington
five will meet Youngstown, and will
clash with Cleveland, January 8.
Cleveland's defeat last night put
Washington in strategic position to
near first place, if the local five trims
the Rosenblums in their scheduled
game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30
SHOOT TO BE HELD
TO HONOR OFFICERS

Iii honor of newly elected officers
of the Washington Gun Club, Inc,
shoot will be held at the traps at
Benning New Year afternoon at l
o'clock. The contest will be under
auspices of the retiring officers, who
will donate the trophies. A feature
of the afternoon will be the installa-
ton of the new officers, who were
elected yesterday to serve for 1927.
They are DR.. Alfred V. Parsons of
Takoma Park, president; ". C. Blum
don. vice president: DR.. 4. b. Slime,
treasurer tre-elected without opposi-
tom, and Robert r.. Welsh Of the
1928 University of Maryland class.
secretary. In DIR. Parsons the club
will have as it's president one of it's
original and most popular members
and one of it's best shots.
Resumption of team races between
the Washington and Oriole Gun Clubs
or Baltimore starts with an enga ge.
ment January e on the Benning
range. The 1926-27 series is now
deadlocked. each club having won
once over its home traps The races
Will be continued monthly until Nav
on home.and-home basis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30
MARYLAND u. BASKETERS
BATTLING FOR POSITIONS

University Of Maryland basketers
who are prepping theoretically for
Western tour next week that begins
Tuesday night when Michigan is met
1T Ann Arbor were to scrimmage this
afternoon at College Park with Bert
Coggins' Central High passers.
Coach Shipley is expected to be in
Iiuenced considerably in his choice
of the men he viii take on the jaunt
by the way they shape up against the
Blue and White tossers.
Donald QIam) Adams. rangy center,
who has just joined the team after
Icing kept on the sidelines because Of
an injury received i'll the foot ball
game with Hopkins Thanksgiving
day, is rounding into shape and may
start at his position against Michigan.
Forwards will be picked from Capt.
Boyd. Linkous, Hale and Snyder, and
guards from Faber, Dean, Zahn and
frosthwait. Stevens may get a
chance at either forward or guard.
Nine players will make the journey
in addition to Coach Shipley. The
tilt with Michigan Tuesday night will
he followed by games with Michigan
state on Wednesday night at East
Lansing and Kentucky on Saturday
1T Lexington. On the return trip Vir-
GINA will be met two nights later at
charlottesville. A contest also may be
booked for the night preceding the
Kentucky encounter with another
Western school.
Coach John ID. O'Reilly is working
hard to develop q strong Georgetown
relay team, and indications are he
viii be successful despite the loss of
Vernon Ascher and Franklin McLain,
stars of last Winters quartet. Jimmy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30

Burgess and Eddie Swinburne, vet.
Grams, are certain of places on this
years four, but a merry fight is on
for the two other places among Eddie
O'Shea and Eddie Semanski. last
years Freshman and Clarence Dus-
sault who heretofore has devoted him.
self to the half-mile.
The Hilltop team will match strides
with Notre Dame in a special race at
the Millrose "A. A. games in New
York City on February 2. In their
last meeting in 1928. Georgetown
handily vancuished the South Bend
four, and in 1922 and 1921 also turned
back the Indiana men. A number of
other engagements are to be arranged
for the Hilltop quartet.
Coach ORailly will start his pro-
teges upon a stiff training course with
the reopening Of the university on
Tuesday.
University of Maryland's track squad
will resume preparation for the cam.
paign next week. With only one mem.
Der of last seasons combination, Joe
Endslow, lost, the Old Liners probably
will have a fast relay team. Veterans
Of last Winters combination at hand
are Andy (Gump) Matthews, "Knocky''
1nOHldS, LeIUy O1ltTII, CndFle PuRn
and Capt. Roger Whiteford. Mary
land will be represented in the Mil.
rose games and may face Harvard
and Massachusetts Tech in the Boston
Athletic Association meet. Other
matches also are planned for the Old
Line team.
Both Georgetown and Maryland
have a promising group that will be
drilled for participation in events
other than the relays.
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College Foot Ball Finds Many Defenders Coaches Vote to Change
PINS NOW ARE BARRED
IN GIRLS BASKET BALL

FALLS CITY, Nebr., December
80 Cp.-It may be ethical to stand
off an annoying male fiirt with a
hat pin, but using pins ON an OPP
pOnent i'm a basket ball game Is
quite different. members of Hum
bOldt High School girls basket ball
team complain.
The girl cage teams from Falls
City and Humboldt played recently
and the Humboldt girls said their
victory was made difficult because
pins. Athletic relations between
the two schools were broken.
The Chamber of Commerce got
busy, patched up the differences
and hat pins are out Of style DUR
ing games.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30
SPLIT LIKELY TO AFFECT
u. S. In 1923 OLYMPICS

Eastern collegiate track body. the
l. G. A. A. A A, will swerve in it's
allegiance to the American Olympic
Association, and incidentally the A.
A. u, and SO with the Intercollegiate
Swimming Association.
If the college situation is affected
at all the break will come in the
declaration of allegiance to the fedora
ton by several, If not all, Of the large
Middle Western universities.
There are some who question even
the solidarity of the National Amateur
Athletic Federation, in proof of which
they point to the fact that at the
Baltimore convention the organization
with which Col. observation-disclosures
dent of the federation--is most closely
affiliated, the Fencers' League, failed
to support his cause.
If financial aid which the fedora
ton can bring to the Olympic funds
Is withheld-and 1t amounts to an ex-
tremely important sum-it is main
tanned that the Olympic Association
will not be embarrassed and that the
money can be obtained from other
sources.
PrOut Is Optimistic.
William G. Prout, president Of the
Olympic organization. expresses him
self enthusiastically concerning the de-
'ection of the federation, holding tina
patriotic sentiment among the ath-
letic organizations of this country will
rise supreme above partisan politics.
Every one not involved in this crisis
will certainly hope that Prout's read
ing Of the pulse of the country is cor
rect. In the meantime meetings and
conferences are being held in New
York, Boston and in the West, and
when the returns are In we shall have
a clearer idea as to what the future
holds.
In the showdown at the Baltimore
convention. at which, so the fedora
ton claims. minority rule in various
important matters was welded by
the A. A. u, the vote was SO as
against 81 cast by Col. Breckenridge
and his associates. It is thus quite
evident that the allegations of minor
ity rule must have some basis other
than figures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30
200 TUTORS ASK CHANGE
AS CAVANAUCH PROTESTS
Fordham Athletic Mentor Declares Action Sought
Would ''Murder'' Modern Came-No Stop
Watches Necessary for ''Hesitaton'' Rule.

meeting indicated that intercollegiate,
sport is in the best of health"
Prof. John G.. Adams of Yale, sub
hitting q survey OF athletic condi
tons in New England. expressed
qualification over the growing oppo
sition of scouting and the increasinc
desire of athletic directors TO provide
competition for all students.
Coaches Elect Officers.
William II. Cowell of the Universit,
OF New Hampshire was elected presi
dent Of the Coaches Association, sue
ceding Gilmour Dobie of Cornell. "
w. Roper Of Princeton was autornati
cally advanced from second vice presi
dent to first vice president, and Hug
Bezdek OF Penn State 10 second VIC
president. John w. Wilce of Ohio
State was reelected secretary and
treasurer.
Trustees chosen We're Fielding II
Yost Of Michigan, William A. Alex
ander of Georgia Tech. Ben G. Over
OF the University of Oklahoma, anG
John F. Meehan. New York Univei.
sity.
Eight of nine district represent
tives were elected. the first distric
place not being filled, as the nornins
ton offered by the nominations "om
mittee was of a coach not now active
This place will be filled by presidents
appointment.
District representatives named were
Charles F. Crowley. Columbia UNI
versity; William Raftery. Virgins
Military Institute; David r. Morey
Alabama Polytechnic Institute: III. @
Page. Indiana University; .. NJ.
Solem, Drake University: Ray Moi
rison. Southern Methodist University
E. l.. Romney. Utah Agricultural Col
lege; w. II. Spaulding. University ..
California, southern branch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30
Tbe Gbenttrg Star
BOYS CLUB

a tip this becomes the most impor-
tant angle of center jumping.
The Upper spreads his fingers to
gain better control of the direction
of the tip. Note this point in the
sketch, too.
If the jump center waits and
catches the ball on his tipping fin.
gers near the halfway mark his op.
ponent who may not be able. to
stretch quite as far will then have an
equal chance of getting the tip.
And. on the other hand, if your
opponent can outreach you and yet
doesn't use the right form in tipping
you can. by using the correct form.
overcome the handicap of his supe-
rior jump.
So in either case it is we'll to learn
TO tip just right, and that means tip
ping on the under half of the ball.
(Next-Eyes In the basket.)
Copyright. 19"6.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30
FRAY
MAY BE AN AERIAL BATTLE

BY the Associated Press.
PASADENA, Calf, December 30
Practice Of the Stanford and Ala
hama foot ball squads forecasts an
aerial duel of brilliance, perhaps I'M
precedented in Rose Bowl gridiron
history for the tussle here New Year
day.
Alabama perhaps has an edge in
this department of the game, for the
Crimson Tide has two beavers Of note,
Hoyt Winslett and Raymond Pepper,
both ends, who can toss a foot ball
well over so yards If necessary, Stan
ford has one mighty passer, but one
who is tireless, "Biff" Hoffman, giant
fullback.
Seldom since 1922, when California,
with the peer Of passers, Harold
Brick" Muller, defeated Ohio State,
have two teams been matched for a
New Year day game at Rose Bowl
field boasttng OF men who can pass so
far and with such accuracy as those
who will perform in the forthcoming
contest
Pepper IS q substitute end AL
though 1t is said that he can throw
a ball farther than Winslett, expertS
declare he lacks the accuracy of his
,teammate, who has been named by
several as an all-American wingnan.
1t Is believed Winslett. usually alter
mating short, well. directed losses with
long throws. will be Hoffman'S Sreat-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

NEW YORK, December 30.-Just
at q time when all the amateur ath-
1etic bodies in this country should
be united in an effort to maintain-in
fact, to enhance-the prestige of the
United States in the Olympic games
of 1928 comes the withdrawal of the
National Amateur Athletic Fedora
ton from the American Olympic AS
ISOLATION.
This is the direct result of the con-
vention of the Olympic Association
last November at Baltimore, where 1T
was felt by the authorities of the fed
Grafton minority control was eXer-
cised by the Amateur Athletic Union.
May Be Significant.
What the results of this division
will be are difficult at the present
time to forecast. They may well be
significant If only because of the'
fact that the federation, with Stand
ard Oil influences, financial and 9TH
erwise, back of it, might cause en-
barrassment by remaining aloof from
the Olympic project.
Again. something more than an in
timation that the federation will &C.
lively fight the A. A. L. next year
is contained in the announcement OF
a federation program Ior frequent
athletic meets throughout the coun-
try next year and a more intensive
development of the work of this or
ganization along State lines.
Question arises, just what this will
mean with respect to the A. A. U.
and the colleges of the Nation. 1t
was claimed that in the last Olympics
80 per cent of the American athletes
wara COLLAGE mon hence affiliated in
large part with the National Collegiate
Athletic Association, of which the
federation Is an outgrowth.
1t is quite true that this large
percentage of Olympic athletes in
1924 were college men, but the fact
should be borne in mind that lot
Of them were graduates and hence not
under collegiate or N. G. A. A. con.
troll.
1t is not at all likely, according to
the writer's information, that the
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HUDDLE IN BASKET
BALL RULED LEGAL
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 30.--Con-
troversy over the use Of the huddle
signal system in basket ball has
called forth an opinion on its legality
from Oswald Tower. editor of the
Official Guide and Rules Interpreter.
Tower holds that the huddle plan is
within the rules provided the game
is not delayed by it's use
When the center gives the signal
with his arms, it is customary to let
him hesitate a couple of seconds out
side the circle. To the team using
the huddle the same concession
should be made, but a team should
not be permitted to use couple of
seconds in the huddle and few sec
onds more to get into position after
the conference" he holds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30

NJ EW YORK. December 30
Judged on basis of COM
VI ments here, the most inter
est1ng part of the annual
meeting of the National Col
legiate Athletic Association today is
likely to he the general discussions OF
the opposite viewpoints of foot ball by
Prof Wilkins of the University of Chi
cago and DIR. s. V. Sanford of the
University of Georgia. The discus
Sions are to be nothing more or less
than a debate on the relative merits
and dement's of foot ball between the
mentioned men, with other advocates
of each side ready to back up their
cases.
Prof, wilkins. chairman of the COM
mittee of the Association of American
University Professors which formu-
lated some time ago a report against
foot ball, is to take the side against
foot ball. and DIR. Sanford IS to take
the side for foot ball. No doubt the
coaches. and apparently great ma
jority of faculty members. are ready
to take up the cudgel in favor of the
game, but others probably will follow
the lead of Prof. Wilkins in decry
ing it.
Ready to Defend Game.
The coaches. members of the
American Association of Foot Ball
Coaches, are ready to do battle in
open discussion in defense of the
game, as was indicated yesterday,
when at the meeting of the associa-
lion all coaches who could talk were
requested to be present today to
speak on any phases of the question,
in which they felt especially inter
ested.
A good many persons seem to think
that the question of bringing out a
lot of criticisms of foot ball at the
end of each season, thus more or less
putting foot ball on a basis of de-
tending its existence, is not good
policy and is not justified.
One man prominent in college ath-
letics. who is not interested in coach
ing, but is dean Of university,
made the unqualified statement that
Il fail TO see the necessity for put.
ting foot ball on the defensive as IL
It were a thing to be attacked at all
times and for any whimsical reason
whatsoever. 1t seems to me and to
most of us interested in administra-
tive and teaching work in the col
leges that foot ball has found its
place in the colleges. is not usurping
the place of the educational curricu-
Ium, and that whatever problems
confront it are nearly entirely admin
istrative problems for each univer-
sity to settle in it's own way.
80 far as / know, there Is not
one so-called evil of foot ball right
now that cannot be settled by the
administrative authorities of any uni
versity in which any such evil is
supposed to exist. In my school our
difficulties are almost entirely elimi-
mated and we are having practically
10 trouble with any phase Of the re-
port"
Should Keep Standard High.
The meeting of the coaches yester.
day developed nothing Of a startling