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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
BASKET Ball Games Will Be Played Here During NEXT THO Days
PRO BASkETERS MAY
DRAW RECORD CROWD

Attendance records for basket ball
here may fall Sunday night when
Palace faces the Cleveland Rosen-
blums, winners in the first half of the
season In the American League.
Advance sale of reserve seats indi
Gates that there will be rush for
standing room to see these two pro
quintets In action.
George Marshall's dreams of a
champion five have for the past couple
seasons been dimned by these Cleve-
landers. Last year Marshall paraded
club to represent this city in the
race 1t finished second in each half
of the pennant race. But Cleveland
finished on top.
Stars of the court Will do their
staff. Cleveland presents galaxy of
brilliant performers in Hickey, Rus
sell. Deighan, Ely and Husta. Hickey,
Russell and Husta were instrumental
in the pair of victories Cleveland
snatched from Palace on the Ohio
court These players are among the
leading point scorers for the circuit.
Ely Is making his first appearance
in Washington with the Roseys. He
was an outstanding star of the Big
Ten Conference a few years ago while
playing at Michigan and broke into
the professional game with Detroit
last year. This Winter he has been
playing at jackson, Mich. He was
recalled by Cleveland after Kerr was
injured in the last game with Palace
In his first contest with the Roseys
this year Ely made five field goals
against Chicago.
Cunningham. star of last years
Ohio State five in the Big Ten, is
sub on the Roseys this year and often
breaks into the game at center. He
is a big rangy tosser and deadly
shot.
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and weight only 1870 pounds. but they
are we'll proportional" And he said
t seriously and with no thought of
humor.
Final tryouts for Georgetown's re.
lay team yesterday developed the fact
that Dussault would be given fourth
position on the. team The quartet
leaves tonight for Brooklyn, where it
takes part tomorrow night in. it's first
race of the year. Boston College and
Lafayette are two of the teams against
which 1t is to run. O'Shea will run
first, Dussault second, Swineburne
third and Burgess last. Besides these
men Jimmy McHugh will make the
trip to compete in the dashes.
GeOrgetown's basket ball game with
Navy has been shifted from Fehru-
airy IL to February 90. The Blue and
Gray varsity and freshman teams
meet Navy varsity and Navy plebe
quints on the same day.
American University showed it's real
mettle last night at Western Mary
land College when it started the game
and had IL points scored against it
before it scored at all, yet finally won
last night showed just how good a
basket ball team American University
is and how we'll balanced. Every man
took part in the scoring, Sawyer get
ting 7 points, kessler 5, sBanta 8,
Birthright 8, Schloss 5. When a 0as-
ket ball team scores like that it is hard
to beat, even If 1t does not have two
or three men who stand out as espe-
cially brilliant. In fact, a we'll bal
apced quint Is much more difficult to
defeat than one that depends entirely
on two star players.
Girardi, the only new man on the
Washington College basket ball team,
is said to be the most brilliant player in
this section in a good while. He comes
from New England and has been the
star of every game in which the East
ern Shoremen have taken part, and
any man who can stand out in a team
numbering among it's members such
players as Carroll and Dumschott.
then he is a real basketer. 1t might
be mentioned in this connection that
Carroll who fills a forward position,
Is about as capable a man handling a
basket ball as lives. What he can do
with a basket ball is astonishing and
cannot be realized unless, he is. seen.
One of his favorite stunts XII to- pass
the ball easily behind him, turn, and
get 1t again and then shoot. No more
skil1ful college player ever has been
seen in this section especially as far
as handling the ball is concerned.
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WOMEN IN SPORT
BY CORINNE FRAZIER.

Golf Is not played because the
Dutch landscape is not particularly
well adapted to the rambling pill
hunt which must necessarily extend
over considerable territory.
No definite sport program is in
corporated in the school curriculum
in Holland, as there is little time
for anything but study, according to
Nine. kownatsZki Tennis cham
pionships, swimming meets, skating
carnivals and all other organized
sport events are held independently
and there is no such thing as a
school or college athlete.
5 With tour or five languages to
learn, as every Dutch girl and boy
is required to do, in addition to the
other studies the students have about
all they can do while at school to
make the scholastic grade. Organized
physical training is unknown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
TEAMS In DISTRICT BANKS
FORM BASKET BALL LOOP

/ two games tonight, facing Columbia
| Juniors at o'clock, then taking on
Rover A. G. The Y courtmen have
| won four games in as many starts
this season.
Olympic Senior tossers are to engage
Kanawha Seniors tonight at Wilson
Normal School at o'clock. These
Olympic players are to report at the
gym at 6;45: Golfer Burnett. Schaf
fert, Schaeffer. Lombard, Freeman,
Galotta, Belt and O'Donnell.
In Boys Club Senior League tits
Shamrocks downed Smithfields, AZ to
16, and Standards defeated Non
parcels, 20 to 10.
Brookland Athletic Club took an ex-
citing 20-to-19 match from Sherwood
Betas. Holden and Perry were high
scorers.
knights of Columbus Hall tonight
will be the scene of a game between
Arrow Seniors and Company G, 121st
Engineers.
With King and Lyles doing most of
| their scoring, Independents humbled
Warwick Props, 48 to 20.
Mardfeldts and Mount Rainier En-.
blems will clash tonight at $50
o'clock at Naval Reserve gym.
Engagements with senior quints
having gyms are sought by Wash
ington Props. Write Manager Ear-
state, at 1907 Varnum street.
La Sale Midgets bowed to ST. John s
Midgets, II to %. last night.
Matches with 105-pound combina
tons having gyms are wanted by St
Johns quint. Call Adams 3102.
Opponents i'm the 115-p0und class
are Sought by SamoSet Props. Call
Lincoln 1881.
Seneca juniors are booking games
through Lincoln 1881.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
OHIO STATE SHOWS
BIG ATHLETIC PROFIT

BY the Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio. January I'll
Athletic receipts of Ohio State Uni.
versity were sufficient in the first half
OF the present fiscal year not only to
finance 20 varsity and freshman
teams, but supplied a substantial
surplus which was used in reducing
the Indebtedness on the Ohio Stadium,
a report issued by the university to-
day disclosed.
Foot ball was the big brother" of
the athletic endeavors. net receipts
for last Fall approximating S245, 900
Gross receipts from the Michigan
game. which attracted a record attend
ance of 90,41l pNSsons, were $3.50. ZOO.
Gross receipts from other sports for
the year, chiefly from basket ball. are
estimated at $17,500
Actual cost of operating and main
tanning Ohio States 1926 foot ball
team, exclusive of salaries, was an
proximately $4,000.
Foot ball and basket ball were the
only sports to show profit for the
year. Basket ball cleared $4,000
Profits on basket ball and foot ball
paid for the following losses in the
year ending June 30, 1926: Track.
S11.S00; base ball. $4,000: wrestling,
81 800; gymnastics and fencing, 81 $50:
golf, 1856; tennis, $3.50. and rifle
shooting, $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.
- O-ORDINATED play and gen
eral athletic ability of players

~ O-ORDINATED play and gen
4 eral athletic ability of players
are the basic elements
~ necessary for the wide popu'
larity of any competitive
game conducted by teams.
Basket ball contains these elements
and that is why it is sweeping the
country today.
Until the invention of the court
game there was no indoor sport In
any way comparable to foot ball and
base bali az genuinely athletic game.
AS a consequence the Winter season
in schools, colleges and universities
offered little or no outlets for the
animal spirits of students either in
the way of enthusiastic roofing or
actual participation in thrilling
exercise.
Helps Calm Youth.
Such condition was not good; for
ardent youth must express himself
in some way A Winter or two ago
at a New England college professor
who lis greatly interested in under.
graduate psychology told the writer
that Winter barn-burnings and other
manifestations of youthful deviltry
had markedly decreased at his insti-
tuition since basket bali had come into
vogue as popular intercollegiate
game.
When the writer first saw this game
1t was not rigidly bound by rules. AL
most any number Of players could
make up a team. sometimes as many
as SO on a side and seldom fewer than
nine. The two sides lined up on op
posite ends of the court and rushed
for the ball at the blowing of a
whistle.
In the course of time, however, the
possibility of team play, always an
American fetish, brought about the
reduction of teams to nine men, a
center forward, two other forwards
known as right and left wings, cen
ter, two side centers and two guards
Rules Offer Problem.
Those who made the rules had the
problem of maintaining a high com
petitive interest and yet safeguarding
players from injuries which would at
tend rough work on the hard floors.
Thus, one of the first rules made it
Illegal to run with the ball. This re-
moved the necessity for tackling. An.
other rule permitted the ball, a soccer
foot ball in the early days of the game
to be batted or passed in any direction
AS the game developed 1t was seen
that the barring of tackling alone was
not sufficient to keep players from
being injured, sometimes seriously
Close guarding and personal contact
always gave the rule makers concern
and through the years regulations
have constantly been modified TO elimi
nate this type of roughness. In this
respect there is some discrepancy as
between methods employed in the vari
Gus sections of the country, but the
difference is less great than it useC
to be.
Yale Is Pioneer.
1t would appear that Yale organized
the first representative college five
back in 1892. the year after DR.. Mai
smith had invented the game at the
Springfield Training School. Mex
year Cornell and the University OF
Chicago put forth teams, but it was
not until 1901 that Columbia, Cornell
Harvard, Princeton and Yale organ
lied the first intercollegiate basket
ball association.
Records indicate that organized
league play in the Western Conference
began in 1906, Minnesota winning the
championship. In 1907 Chicago ant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
INDIANA-M MICHIGAN
TO CLASH FOR LEAD
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, January 21.-The week
end basket ball matches of the Big
Ten open tonight with Chicago, near
the bottom of the standing, entertain
ing Purdue, which is crowding the
leaders
The Maroons lost close decision to
Iowa a week ago. and two days later
the Iowans beat Purdue handily. Civ
ing Chicago the hope that tonight will
see their second victory in the Big
Ten season. Purdue, however, has
the leading scorer of the Conference at
center, the lanky Cummins, with Cot
ton Wilcox, next years foot ball cap
tain, another dangerous threat.
The other Big Ten teams get into
action tomorrow night, with the
Michigan Indiana contest at Blooming
ton, regarded as the crucial contest of
the early season. These two teams
are tied for Conference leadership,
with three victories each and no de-
feats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21

Basket ball fiVes representing fiVe
Washington banks will compete in the
Bankers League that is being formed.
1t is planned to add one more team
and begin play on February /, with
each quint meeting the other twice.
Teams now listed for the circuit are
Riggs. Washington Loan and Trust,
Union Trust, Commercial National and
Potomac Savings. Warren Loving at
the Washington Loan and Trust Co.
will receive applications for the sixth
place in the league.
Y. Nj. G. A. tOssers are the latest
victims of Anacostia Eagles, defending
District unlimited class court cham
pions. The Birds downed the l. team,
% to 10. Ralph Bonnie was high
scorer for the winners, counting four
goals from scrimmage and one from
foul.
Three senior league games are
carded for tonight. Clovers and
Epiphany Roses clash at Congress
Heights Auditorium, starting at 7
o'clock, while Auths meet Wizards and
Washington Collegiates play Elliotts
at Washington Barracks in a double
header starting at the same hour.
Ci0vers bowed to the regular five OF
Company F, National Guard of Hy-
attsville, in a sizzling 33to-32 battle
on the armory court in the Maryland
town. In preliminary game, the
Guard Reserves swamped combina-
ton from Laurel, SO to Il.
BasketerS of Potomac Boat Club of
Washington dropped q S3to14 brush
to Old Dominion Boat Club at Alex
andria in the opening game of the
Nautical Basket Ball League.
General Accounting Office five
bested Second Assistants, % to rs,
and Fourth Assistants showed the
way to First Assistants, 27 to rs, in
hot matches in the Post Office Basket
Ball League.
Y. Nj. G. A. Junior basketers play
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CUNTS TO BE BUSY
IN SERIES CONTESTS

ALEXANDRIA,, Va, January Iii
Activity in the third District cham
pionship basket ball series becomes
intense tonight with three games list
ed in the two boys divisions and one
contest slated for girls. Two games
for "a" division and one "B" section
tilt comprise the boys games.
Fredericksburg High will meet Alex.
andria, defending champions. on the
local Armory Hall court at SIS, with
Washington and Lee High being host
to George Mason High in games for
the boys and girls of both teams
In division b Warrenton goes to
Leesburg for game with that high
school.
Alexandria High will be seen i'm &C
ton at Front Royal, Va, tomorrow
afternoon, playing Randolph Macon
Military Academy at 3 o'clock.
Episcopal High will be host to Fish.
burns Military Academy tomorrow
Afternoon at $50.
Alexandria High has scheduled a.
game for it's girls basket ball team to
be played against George Mason High
here January IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
BY CLARENCE DEMAR.


NJ ANY of the marathon stars
M are fellows who didn't start
w distance running until they
4 1 were around 20 or 81 years
of age. A boy should not
think of distance running until he is
fully matured. To run or .
miles, or more, while under 20 years
of age is very detrimental to the
health.
If you want to go 5 or miles
walk it. Never try to run that dis
lance
There are a lot of fine athletic
sports for boys under 16, such as
basket ball. base ball, foot ball, track
and field Including the sprints and
short distance runs), swimming, box.
ing, wrestling and others. That's
enough to keep a lad busy until he
gets up around 20. If at 20 you feel
you are fully matured and want to try
the distance runs jump In. If fell
low keeps away from distance run
ming until he's q, he then can run
the marathon distance until he's So.
But if he starts when he's a boy he'll
break down and his athletic days will
end early.
The marathon distance is over &c
miles. That's too far even for a walk
for the readers of The Star Boys
Club. A good long hike of 10 miles.
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PLAYERS WEAR NUMBERS,
BUT YOU CAN'T READ 'EM,
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CLEVELAND, January Ell
Ordered by the city basket ball
commission to wear letters on their
jerseys, members of the st. Col
mans, an amateur team here, an
peared last night i'm game with
the Wheeler Shoe Co, team with
their chests adorned with old Celtic
numerals about 1000 years old.
The team had complied with the
order of the commission. but not to
the enlightenment of the spectators
and opponents. The team members
themselves could not decipher the
numerals without a great deal of
study.
They dug them out of the archives
of a library. st. Colman's won So
straight contests before it was de.
feated in the final game of the sea
son last year, and has won 81 out
of 82 contests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
BASKET BALL

Although Duncan, left guard of
Mississippi College. did not score in
the championship game of the
Southern intercollegiate Amateur
Athletic tournament last season
against the Citadel, Teddy Weeks,
the CitadeIs star who faced him,
had difficulty In counting at all.
Weeks is a great little athlete and
his favorite stunt is to break down
sideline, take a pass and dribble
in for a shot. He is an expert at
this effective method OF counting.
Duncan was outfooted by Weeks
when he would break, but when
Weeks caught his pass and
started his dribbling, the Missis-
sippi guard handled his opponent
by rushing at him from a slight
angle, forcing Weeks to change
his predetermined course--drib-
bling into the court toward the
basket, as shown in the upper
illustration--and continue on
down the sideline, as shown in the
lower illustration. Duncan COW
cred Weeks so perfectly that the
latter was unable to pass the ball
to a teammate. Forcing an OPP
ponent with the ball to the side
line and making him stay there
liz tip-top basket ball on any
court.
Downright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
SPRINT EVENTS ADDED
TO PENN RELAY GAMES

PHILADELPHIA, January 21 LP).-
For the first time in its history, track
stars outside of the college ranks will
compete in series of sprints at the
University of Pennsylvania relay
carnival in April.
Invitations have been sent to Henry
Russell. former intercollegiate sprint
champion; Roland Locke. formerly of
the University of Nebraska; Loren
Murchison, Jackson Scholz. former
Missouri star and an Olympic cham
pion, and many other leading sprinters
of the country who have left college.
The events will be 100 yards, $50
yards and 220 yards
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
1890 VICTORY SCORED
BY GIRLS BASKET TEAM

ELM CREEK. Nebr.. January 81
A1.-The Warren. Pa. girls basket
ball team, which claimed to have es.
tablished a high mark in cage scoring
in an S4-to-0 win, has a new mark to
shot at in the 103-to-0 victory the Elm
Creek High School girl hoopsters
chalked up against Riverdale last
night.
The Elm Creek players, who opened
their season by defeating Amherst
sc to 0. believe they have made u
world record
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
TRACK IN TUNNEL SEEN
AS WAY TO BEAT MARKS

LONDON, January FL L).-Eng-
land is wondering who will be the
first to accept the tip given to
athletes by Prof. A. v. Hill, winner
of the Nobel prize for medicine in
1922, which he claims will enable
them to break all existing running
records for distances of half mile
and upward.
All that is necessary, the pro-
fessor says, Is to build a running
track i'm a tunnel and make the at
mosphere half oxygen. The oxygen
will supply the energy needed. and
he contends. present records can
be surpassed easily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
GERMANS NOW ELIGIBLE
FOR DAVIS CUP TENNIS

NEW YORK, January 81 CAo).-Foi,
lowing the request of the United
States Lawn Tennis Association, the
British association has lifted the ban
on German players to allow their en-
try into the 1927 Davis Cup competi.
ton.
The y. S. l.. T. A. was informed of
hciaily of Germany's readmission to
the International Lawn Tennis Fed.
GRAFTON yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETERS
In TWO CONTESTS TO-DAY
Western and Business Battle TO STAY i'm Race With
Central, and Eastern and Tech Also Are Due
to Provide Lively Tussle.

~ US1NESS and Western fives
- were to face this afternoon at
BIB O'Clock at the Arcadia
L. auditorium In the first game Of
the usual double header In the
public high school basket ball cham
pionShip series.
Tho game is vitality important to
the teams that are tied for runner-up
position in the series at two wins and
one loss each. The loser will be just
about eliminated from championship
consideration.
Eastern and Tech, meeting in the
other game, are expected TO provide
brisk battling, with each striving to
register its first series win. Three
games is as many starts have been
lost by both in the series.
While the championship tits are in
progress, Central High tossers, who
are setting the pace In the series with
four victories and no defeats, will be
entertaining the quint representing
the Maryland School for the Deaf OF
Frederick, Md, in Central gym. start
ing at O'Clock. Central won the
first tilt between the quints. % to 20
played in the Maryland city early in
the season,
Taking the lead at the start and
always holding 1t, Coach Jack Collins
Business High tOssers yesterday van
quished Woodward School tossers. "A
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WILL COACH GROVE CITY.

GROVE CITY, Pa, January q up.
Charles Berry of Phllipsburg, n. j.,
end at Lafayette in 1924.
has been selected as head coach of
foot ball at Grove City College to sue
coed Charles Bowser, who resigned at
the end of the 1925 season to become
assistant to Coach Jock" Sutherland
of the University of Pittsburgh.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21

Morgan College basketers, conquer
ers of Howard University, and who
lave yet to lose this season, will en-
gage the Alec quintet, District col
ored title holders, tomorrow afternoon
at Lincoln Colonnade, starting at $50
O'clock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
BASKET BALL SINCE 1892
HAS SEEN GREAT CHANGES

Wisconsin tied and then for three
years Chicago ruled the roost. The
great winner in the Big Ten has been
Wisconsin, with a record of eight
times individually or jointly held since
1912. Indiana, now pressing for 1927
honors, has never won or shared in
conference basket ball title.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21

~ WO basket ball games involv.
ing local seXtets are carded
for tonight, one an exhibition
affair and the other a sched-
@ uled tilt of the Washington
Recreation League.
Western Electric Co. tossers, new
team in the field, will make its first
official appearance on the Marjorie
Webster School court at Fourteenth
street and Massachusetts avenue, in
the Recreation League, meeting the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church squad in Junior division
game, starting promptly at I o'clock.
An exhibition match will be played
at the Calvary Church gym between
Strayer Athletic Club tossers and the
Basketeers, the Calvary Church team.
The game with be a part of the pro
gram arranged by the Young Peoples
Society of the church.
In the lone game played last night
the Basketeers out-tossed the Capitol
Athletic Club senior squad in a senior
loop Recreation League tilt on the
Calvary NJ. +. Church floor. The
score was "a to 10.
The church sextet not only had bet
ter team play, but was more success
full in avoiding penalties for fouling.
The Capitols, despite their efforts To
observe the tcchnicalities. were guilty
Of numerous minor violations, which
added several tallies to the winners
score. 1t was just one of those "un-
lucky days" for the Capitol squad,
Ruth CLANCY did the heavy scoring
for the Basketers, registering eight
goals from the field and five from the
foul line.
The score follows.