Evening star., 1926-03-21

IeSdn, MCLaln. ASCher, BurgeS
Dowdlng, and one sprinter, probably
trip. Ray Haas is to compete in TIL
field events and Plansky also i'll the
Jump and Ascher, Swinburne, Burge:
and distance runs.
The relay team as it will appear in
the two meets in which it is expected
to star is to he made up of Gegan,
Ascher, Swinburne and Burgess. Ge-
gan, by his splendid race in the
knights of Columbus games in New
York last Tuesday night, seems per-
manently to have displaced McLain.
The team will be away a little. more
than two weeks, planning to return
early in the week following Easter.
Coach John ORei,ly's double duty
as coach of the track and base ball
teams at Georgetown will not work
very conveniently While he is in Texas
with the track men. OReilly is to be
away while the first five games of his
diamond schedule are played. And
among the five are some of the most
important of the season. Bucknell.
Yale, Temple. Princeton and Syracuse
come here for games during O'Reilly's
absence. However, John seems to
think the ball team is coming along
very well and that it can better afford
to be without his services than the
track squad.
And, to be frank, O'Reilly, despite
the brillianCe of some of the perform
ers he is to take with him for the four
meets, will have plenty Of problems if
he wants to win the dual meets. Texas
L. and Texas A. & NJ. have material,
also, and they will have more men and
fresher men in many of the competi-
tions. And While Georgetown is espe-
cially strong in the middle distances
and in the field events in the daShes
and distances its prospects are not
overly good. Of course. in two men of
the caliber of Plansky and Norton,
both of whom can do almost anything
in the field line and do it well, the
Blue and Gray have a tremendous ad-
vantage.
College base ball begins here this
week with two games. University of
Maryland plays University of Rich
mond at College Park Thursday after
noon and Catholic University tries
conclusions with Gal,audet Saturday
at Brookland. Georgetown does not
open its season until next week, when
Bucknel plays in its opening game
on Monday.
North Carolina State College has
just finished its Spring foot ball prac.
tice and is said to have had the best
session since it began holding such
workouts. Practically the entire squad
was out and the work carried on was
of the nature of regular competition
Coach Tebell divided the squad in two
sections. one the Reds the other
the Whites" and developed them
separately. After the first two weeks
he began to put his squads against
each other in regular games every
other day and through the rivalry
thus developed much more interest
among the players than has been
noted in previous years. Incidentally
North Carolina State is expecting to
have next Fall about the best eleven
1t has turned out in the last decade
1t remains to be seen whether or
not the action of the foot ball rules
committee yesterday in it's effort to
prevent lndiscriminate forward pass
ing will have the desired effect. A
change in the rules regarding the for
ward pass has been made so that in
each four downs allowed to obtain
first down only one pass may result
as incompleted. A second or third
pass will each be penaiiZed yards. If
the incomplete pass also counts
down, with the 5-yard penalty addi-
uonal, it may work out alright, but
If the down is not to be counted, and
only a 5-yard penalty inflicted, then
some rather peculiar situations may
develop. Suppose, for instance. a team
was on its opponents 5-yard line, and
its first forward pass failed. 1t might
try again, have that fail and suffer a
byard penalty; try another, have that
fail and suffer another 5 yards, the
down always remaining the same, and
might conceivably to continue to try
forward passes and take 5-yard penal
ties until penalized out to the 25-yard
mark, where a drOp-kick might be
tried. In other words, down under an
oposing teams goal the new arrange
,ment might, if the loss of a down is
not included, give team six chances
to try for a touchdown through long
passes, and then on top of that get
another opportunity to score through
a field goal.
Another change effected is to make
the ball dead" whenever it goes out
of bounds. This is done to prevent
scrambling for the ball, but it also
will be considerably in favor of the
man who may be tackled close to the
side lines, and if a man running down
the side line were tackeled and
fumbled the ball and it rolled outside,
there would be no penalty attached
to the tumble and the ball would
remain in his possession just the
same.
The same opportunity ought to be
offered the defense to recover the ball
if fumbled along the side lines as Is
given to it in the cases Of a tumble
near the middle of the field In short,
a. tumble is a mistake and a misplay
in one part of the field ought to have
the chance of being just as costly as
if it occurred in another place, and
also if there is a pile-up near the
side lines and the ball shoots out from
the pile it will take a sharp-eyed Off
cial to be sure who touched it last.
Also if a man happens to tumble in
such position and the ball accidently
strikes another player in the back the
ball goes to that player through no
good work of his own.
1t seems that that change, If cor
rectly set forth in the press reports,
will bring into the game, especially
when the ball is along the side lines.
an element that does not put
premium on good play.