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Evening star., 1927-02-17
BASKET BALL PLAY FIRST
USED In MIDWEST In 1913
Nebraska Wesleyan Coach Originated Novel System
for Crucial Battle With Nebraska Varsity.
Team Held Cornhuskers Helpless.

disputed Missouri Valley Conference
champion. Nebraska Wesleyan and
the Cornhusker institution were only
miles apart, so the rivalry between
tho two was great. Two games we're
played at Lincoln, and each won a
game.
There arose throughout the Stats a
demand that rubber contest be held
A new court was built in the Lincoln
Municipal Stadium; the stage was set
for what proved to he the most drs.
matte basket bail contest ever PLAYED
in the Middle West
Two days before the game Hiah
Hughes the Wesleyan center. came 10
Kline and said there would be nothing
To the game II the coach could devise
some method of stopping the dribbling
OF Haskell. the COrnhusker's star for
ward, and Nebraskas out. of -bo,,nds
play. 1t occurred 10 Kline that on out
ot-bounds plays back of his basket
territory, his defense would have Dlen-
~ OF time To get set. If all five man
stationed themselves i'll 81 waiting de-
iense formation. ii not only would he
hard to penetrate br,t would. he he.
leVed, disconcert the attack.
Surprised COrnhusEers.
Accordingly, he decided to place the
center just back of the center circle
on "a 90-foot floor, the two forwa r,fa
Just back OF him, about a yard. and
out two-thirds of the way to me side
lines, and the two guards lust back
OF the free-thToW line and outside the
free-throw circle, assuming, of course
mat all opponents We're up court.
This was to bs done only on out-of-
hounds play. Also every Wesleyan
player was coached to compel every
opponent to shoot high over his hands
at every attempt at goal from the
field.
The Nebraska Wesleyan fve prac-
tlced this defense only about 80 min
utes on the day before the game, and
next evening went into the crucial
contest with u defense that worked %
easily and perfectly against ut-of-
bounds plays that Nebraska was we'll
nigh helpless. She never did get a
set-up shot and was Overwhelmingly
defeated.
tCopyright 1927
Evening star., 1927-02-17
Cemge0un Fue Ends Its Season Tonight Kline nuent0r Fireman
MARINE CORPS NINE
ADDS SOME TALENT

Among new players OH the Quantico
Marines base ball team this season
will be Lieuts. Walter Troxell and Pete
Schrider, former University of Mary
land stars. Troxell played first base
for the Old Liners and Schrider was
pitcher. William Derr, William Scar
lett. George Fortier and Sanford
Young are other newcomers to the
team.
Veterans who will be at hand in
clude George Fox. Howard Hudson,
Jesse Kidd. Tom Stolle, John Buko-
way, George Hrtszko, John Balls,
John Parker, James Levey and Ray
Hannah.
j. 7. Ready will coach the Quantico
nine, assisted by Capt. Freeny.
Lieut.. Thayer c. Bailey, another
former Maryland luminary, will coach
the team at Paris Island. Richard
Duncan. outfielder. and George Mon
telth, first baseman, also will go to
this South Carolina post.
Home and home games with Cath
olic University and a tilt with Gal
laudet appear on the schedule of %
contests for the Quantico nine. All
but Will be played at Quantico.
The card follows.
Evening star., 1927-02-17
BASKET BALL TITLE
TILT AT ALEXANDRIA

ALEXANDRIA. Va, February IL
The play-off for the Third Athletic
District Of Virginia basket ball cham
pionship will occur here tomorrow
night, with Alexandria High School
champion Of Division A. facing War.
renton High School. title holder OF
Division B. The game will be in the
Armory, starting at SIS.
Virginia Athletic Club will meet st.
Joseph's in a basket ball game at the
Armory Hall tonight.
Alexandria basket ball fans will see
Christ Church Prep School repre.
sented In athletics in this city for
the first time Saturday. The Rich
mond schoolboys come here to engage
Episcopal High Schools team.
Alexandria High School will 60 to
Front Royal on Saturday to play Ran
dolph-Macon Military Academy at
basket ball.
st. Mary's Celtics play Swavely
Schoo! in a basket ball game at Ma.
nassas Saturday night.
Evening star., 1927-02-17
TEAMS ARE DRAWN
FOR SOCCER SERIES

Champion Walford hooters are due
to clash with the German-Americans
on the Monument Grounds In one of
the two games to be played in the
cup tie matches of the Washington
Soccer League.
The other game, arranged as the
result of drawings last night, will
find -Rosedale and Monroe hooters
clashing at the Rosedale Playground.
Concord and Mrlboro clubs drew
byes and will meet the winners of
the other matches in the semi-final.
Marlboro will play the winner of
the Wlford Germa n American tilt.
Plans were arranged for a soccer
game between the Fort Washing
ton, Md, team and an all-star
eleven to be selected from the play
ers in the Washington Soccer League.
Only players born in the United
States have been chosen.
Evening star., 1927-02-17

target. Immediately deliver the same
kind Of a blow with the left-1but let
it land. This can be used in reverse
starting with the left and letting the
right do the damage.
You've tried the criss.cross on the
foot ball field. Here 1t Ia in boxing:
Start a fast outside left-hand hook
to the face, Immediately following it
with right to the body. That trick
would be well TO try Immediately
after working the shit punch.
After he is trying to solve those
two come back at him with the dou-
ble'hook punch: Deliver either inside
or outside left hook 10 the face, imme.
diately followed by inside or outside
right-hand hook to the face.
Follow that with the Same action,
but with the blows landing on the
body.
These stunts will pile up points and
help you win your match.
Next-Ten rules for the boxer!
Evening star., 1927-02-17
COL. MARGETTS TO HEAD
ARMY POLO ACTIVITIES

The War Department yesterday an
nounced the appointment of Lieut..
Col. Nelson E. Margetts. general staff,
as chairman of the Army central polo
committee that will supervise polo
throughout the Army and will organ
ize teams TO represent the military
in national tournaments.
Others named on the committee are
Maj. Willis d. Crittenberger, Cavalry,
secretary treasurer; Lieut.. Col +. H.
DE Almond. Field Artillery; Majs
Henry W. Baird, Cavalry; G. L. Scott.
Quartermaster Corps Cortland Parker,
general staff, and Robert E. OBrien,
Cavalry
Evening star., 1927-02-17

~ FTEN IN the WINTER months
when surcease of hurry and
I hustle in sports--in most
~ sports, that is to say-givcS
time and opportunity for
rumination and philosophy, many in
teresting stories are told, many inter
esting facts come TO light when two or
more enthusiasts are gathered. 1t is
in this way tha tradition is made and
legend is promulgated.
Just now. curiously enough, at a
time when some of the important
basket ball teams are dropping the
ffve-man defense. there is something
of q controversy in the midlands as to
who invented this system of play
There has been a prevailing idea
that DIR. Meanwell. the great basket
ball coach at Wisconsin. was the au-
thor. in the face of the fact that this
coach has admitted that he never saw
the five-man defense employed until
Nebraska Wesleyan used it again the
Badger five.
None the less, DR. Meanwell was
credited only recently by Il national
sports writer with having devised this
defense and the other day Lon Jour
Diet Of Pennsylvania was hailed as the
inventor. first applying it to the 1916
University of Pennsylvania five.
Kline Invented Play.
The difficulty with the claim in be-
half of Jourdet is that in 1916 practi-
cally al! the high schools in the Mis-
souri, Valley and 50 per cent of the col
legeS there were using the five-man
defense.
AS a matter of fact and of history
the man who first discovered and first
employed this play was w. G.. Dad
Bid Kline, of the University of Illi-
nois, when he was coaching basket
ball at Nebraska Wesleyan in the sea-
son of l913-14.
Kline had a colorful personality and
in those days was very much in the
intercollegiate limelight. Later i'll
health interrupted his activities and
now. because of the necessity of lighter
work, he is immured In Hasting Col
lege. in Nebraska, still coaching the
court game.
klines time at Nebraska Wesleyan
fell in the good old days of basket
ball, when it was pretty much of a
catch-aS-catch-c can game-in the Mid
die West at least-and a foul was not
called on a player for simply knocking
a man down. 1t was only when he
kicked the fallen opponent in the
face that the referee took notice. The
dribble was the backbone of offense.
sity of Nebraska and Nebraska Wes-
leyan fives were among the best in
the West. and Nebraska was the un-
Evening star., 1927-02-17
HOWELL SETS WORLD
RECORD FOR PLUNGE

CHICAGO. February II R.-R. f.
Howell Of Chicago Athletic Associa-
ton established a new world record
for the plunge for distance in q 60
foot tank here, when he went the
length of the pool in IA % seconds.
The former record of 15 rs seconds
was made by Guernsey of Yale in
1923.
The plunge for distance was one Of
the Central A. A. U. championships
decided tonight.
Howell formerly was a member of
the Northwestern University swim
ming team.
Evening star., 1927-02-17
CELTICS MAY TAKE
LEAD FROM PALACE

Unless the revamped Chicago
Bruins can break into the win column
in the two-game series with the New
York Celtics starting tonight in the
Windy City, Washington will find it.
self in second place by Saturday
night.
The Celtics boosted themselves into
tie with Washington for first place
last night by trimming Fort Wayne
for the second consecutive time, 20 to
2S. and thereby made their record
read four victories and no losses.
However. If the Bruins take at least
one game Of the series from the Gel
tics, it will leave Washington alone
at the top.
1t is reported that the Chicago club
owners are seeking to buy Nat Hol
man or Joe Lopshick of the Celtics.
Evening star., 1927-02-17

game and Central was to appear at
Manassas, Va, against Swavely
School.
A clash has been arranged for Feb
ruary 25 at the Arcadia between Cen
trail High and the Georgetown fresh
men hasketers. Both are outstanding
combinations, and the game should
prove a bang-up affair.
Coach Jack Collins tossers squeezed
out a 1921 victory yesterday over
Gonzaga in the Stenog gym. Both
teams were handicapped by absence
of dependableS. Business was without
Bernard Jones and Tony Steward, and
the Purple did not have its ace, John
ny Bozek on the job. 1t was a keenly
contested game all the way. Revelle
Jones and Charley May for Business
and Jim Farrell and Gaghan for Con
zaga We're leading scorers.
Central High triumphed over Episco-
pal yesterday at Alexandria, 26 to "a.
After taking the home clubs dust for
three quarters Coach Coggins' doughty
tossers stepped out in the late mo-
ments to win. Pete Nee and Forrest
Burgess were Central's scoring aces,
with Bryant and Temple leading the
Episcopal sharpshooters.
Coach Sanb0rn's Strayer's five put
up a brave fight against Gallaudet
yesterday at the City Club before sue
cumbing to the Kendall Greeners, Al
to As. Strayer's led in the early
stages. but Gallaudet soon gained the
upper hand. Cosgrove and Dyer for
Gallaudet and Cappelli for Strayer's
displayed keen basket craftsmanship.
With Combs. Walker and CARRIER
scoring consistently. Western High
handily downed George Washington
freshmen last night, 81 to 10.
Central High swimmers will enter
tain Calvert Hall School in the Central
pool tomorrow afternoon, starting at
4 o'clock. There Is a possibility that
the Blue and White mermen also may
meet Loyola High of Baltimore tomor-
row, this team having been listed
through mix-up in the schedule.
Lightweight tOssers of Western High
eked out a 1914 win over Rockville
High yesterday in an extra period
battle.
Evening star., 1927-02-17
GUARDS IN TWO GAMES.

Company F, National Guard. bas-
keters face stiff tests tonight on the
Armory floor at Hyattsville. The
regular Guard FIVE will play host to
the Newark Pleasure Club. one of the
strongest amateur teams of Baltimore,
in the main attraction, and in a pre-
liminary, starting at 1880 o'clock the
company reserves will match baskets
with Montrose A. G. of this city.
Evening star., 1927-02-17
TITLE time will he lost by Bust

TITLE time will he lost by Bust
ness High athletes III laying
aside the basket ball and tax
~ ing up the base bah.
It was announced today by
Coach Jack Collins that battery candl-
dates for the Stenog nine are 10 re-
mort for their first conditioning ses-
sion on Monday in the school gym.
The basket ball team ends it's sea
son tomorrow night In Norfolk, Va,
against Maury High School.
Only tossing of the horsehide Will
be permitted by the Business mentor
at the start Of practice. To make
certain that the boys will not cut
loose" and hurt their arms Collins
will not allow the use of gloves at
first
Manuel Klawans, manager. Is now
busy completing an attractive sched-
school nine. Eddie Marosy. regular
southpaw pitcher on the team for the
past two seasons. is captain.
Eastern High, howeer. will not turn
SO quickly TO diamond preparation
when the Light Blue and White
basketers have called 1t a season after
tomorrow afternoons game with the
University of Maryland freshmen IN
Ritchie gymnasium at College Park.
1t is the intention of Coach Charley
Guyon to assemble foot ball candi-'
dates for a few days practice prior
to the start Of base ball drills. Guyon
believes that the grid training will
prove especially valuable in enabling
him to get a line on the new material
that will be aailable next Fall and
also in giving such boys an opportu-
nifty Of getting an idea of what it is
all about
Other court games tomorrow will
hiring together Dewitt and Georgetown
freshmen In American University gym
and Strayer's and Woodward School
at the NJ. g. A.
Saturday will be rather lean day
for schoolboy tives Of this section.
Only three tits are listed, and two are
for out -oftown courts. Gonzaga is to
travel to I4eonardtown. Md, to engage
Leonard Hall High and Friends is to
go to Baltimore to engage McDonogh.
Central will meet Boys Club Celtics
at $50 o'clock at the Boys Club in
the only local game.
A game between st. Johns and
Georgetown freshmen in the Saints
gym was the only tilt involving a
scholastic auint carded this afternoon
for a local floor. Strayer's Business
College tossers were to go to Balti-
more today to engage the Strayer's
College tossers of that city in a return
Evening star., 1927-02-17
COLLEGE BASKET BALL.

George Washington, 22; William
and Mary, Ia.
Fordham. 81: Catholic University. 81.
Navy, 33: Virginia. 10.
Dartmouth. 35; Yale, 90.
Pennsylvania, go; Syracuse. %.
Princeton, 90; Cornell, 20.
Clemson. 33: Florida, 16.
North Carolina State, 80; Duke, %.
Harvard, 36; Brown, Is.
NOtre Dame, 35; Wabash, 25.
Waynesbmrg, 80; Washington and
jefferson, So.
Ohio University, IS; Miami. SO.
Illinois, 46: Northwestern, 32.
Eastern Illinois Normal, 81; Rose
Poly, &c.
Western Kentucky Normal, 46;
Louisville, 25.
Evening star., 1927-02-17
EAGLES AND EXPRESSMEN
MEET In TERMINAL GYM

Two fast court games are scheduled
for tonight in Washington and nearby
Maryland.
American Railway Expressmen Will
get crack at the champion Anacostia
Eagles in d game billed for the Ter
minal Y. NJ. {. \. gym at S o'clock
Bond Whirlwinds. virtually an all
star aggregation, will journey to Fort
Humphreys to meet the soldier team
there. The Bond players will report
at the store at 6:45.
Last night the Whirlwinds stopped
the sensational winning streak of St.
Martins annexing a 2l-to-1 game,
played in the American University
gymnasium.
Y. Nj. G.. 4. Quints of Washington
and Baltimore will clash tonight at
the local Y gymnasium, with the
Washington Ave yearning TO wipe out
a defeat handed ii earlier in the sea
son by the Marylanders. Players are
to report at the Y at 7:l5.
Warwick Collegians, up to yesterday
considered serious contenders for the
unlimited title. got a setback at the
hands Of Calvary NJ. f. tossers, drop
ping q 2S.to-24 contest in an extra
period. Calvary Reds trounced Cal.
vary Reserves in preliminary, 4S
TO 26.
Isherwood defeated the Elliotts. 81
to 25. with Irving. Pattan and Will
son starring
Washington Canoe Club tossers
dropped a 24-to.l7 game to the Old
Dominion Boat Club five at Central
High gym. The game was one of the
crucial contests of the Nautical
League.
Kennedys n0sed out Mount Vernon
tossers, Ii TO 13. in the y gym,
bringing TO an end the Mount Vernon
winning streak.
Chevy Cease Centrals trimmed
Riggs Bank at Central High gym, 81
to 13, outclassing the Financiers at all
angles Of the game.
Riggs Bank won game from Com.
mercial Nationals in the Bankers
League, IL to 8.
Epiphany Chapel f0or7nen rang UP
q double victory last night. defeating
rnla0e Juniors. 3S to 25. and Atlas
MSAssta. S6 to 25.
NeuFamsc Midgets downed tho Colo
rnin nWe, IS to Is.
UWVe Washington Qusnsu fsu b.
nyfo Alexandria hocr7nen In ganes al
Alexandria. The strong 81. Mary's
Evening star., 1927-02-17
NEEDED WIN GAINED
BY ILLINOIS QUINT
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
CHICAGO, February 17.-Illinois
easy victory over Northwestern at
Urbana last night was the game the
Illini needed to poke their way a
notch upward in the Big Ten basket
ball standings.
Illinois now is tied with Iowa. with
a .667 percentage, having won 6 games
and lost 3. Iowa has won games
and lost 2.
Northwestern's 46-to-32 defeat last
night was the seventh in "A row for
the Evanston team.
Four games are scheduled for Sat
urday, with the three leaders-Mtch-
igan, Wisconsin and Purdue-all in
action.
Evening star., 1927-02-17
Ube Gbenit,g 5tar
BOYS CLUB

learned the movement and can do 1t
smoothly speed up In shadow boxing
and do 1t over and over. Then you're
ready to try 1t on your opponent.
The shift punch IL another clever
piece of work Webb teaches his box
ing pupils. You start a fast outside
right hook toward the face, but
stop the fist a few inches from the
Evening star., 1927-02-17
PRO COURT LEAGUE.

LAST NIGHTS RESULTS.
New York. %: Fort Wayne. %.
GAMES TONIGHT,
Baltimore at Philadelphia.
New York at Chicago.
GAME TOMORROW.
New York at Chicago.
GAMES SATURDAY.
New York at Rochester.
Washington at Cleveland
Evening star., 1927-02-17
U. S. SCH00LB0Y CREW
WILL RACE IN ENGLAND

KENT, Conn, February II CR.-
For the first time an American pre-
paratory school eight will participate
next June in the Thas challenge cup
race of the Henley Regatta in Eng
land. The Kent School, Ii has been
announced. will send it's crew over TO
take part in the rowing classic.
Evening star., 1927-02-17
HILLTOPPERS TO ENGAGE
WILLIAM AND MARY TEAM
Invaders Downed by George Washington in Opener
Here, But Show Much Skill-Catholic U. Drops
Final Clash of Northern Jaunt

the Seton Hall meet in Newark last
night, Eddie Swinburne of Georgetown
was third. Johnny Gibson of Ford
ham was the winner.
Evening star., 1927-02-17

"RY out this triple punch. ia.
vorite attack Of Coach Spike
Webb, i'll shadow boxing first
/ Slip the left lead over the
right shoulder of your op-
pnnent. Then deliver a straight right
hand blow TO the body "a. Duck
YOUR head under the extended arm Of
your opponent and at the same time
shoot the left 20 the body (2), and
follow it with a right hook to the
face t3).
Try it out in front Of the mirror
and see how it woPks. After you've
Evening star., 1927-02-17
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

~ FTEN in the Winter months
when surcease of hurry and
hustle in sports--in most
~ sports. that is to say-givcs
time and nnpOrtunitx for,
Evening star., 1927-02-17

Epiphany Chapel fi0Ormen rang up
n double victory last night. defeating
pxiaoe Juniors. 3S to 25, and Atlas
M1daeta. IS to 25.
Evening star., 1927-02-17
BUSINESS HIGH TO START
BASE BALL WORK MONDAY
Battery Candidates to Prep in Cym-Stenographer
Five to End Its Season With Clash With Maury
i'm Norfolk Tomorrow.

game and Central was to appear at
Manassas, Va, against Swavely
School
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-30
WRECKAGE OF
REDFERN PLANE.
SIGHTED, MAYBE

PANAMA, Sept. 20, (AP)-
Wreckage of an airplane was
sighted by Captain LIE Core, Of
the French steamer Port de
Dunkerque on Sept. 26, in lati-
tudc 1915 north, longitude 74.44
west. The position given is about
165 miles north of BarranqHilla,
Colombia.
The wreckage, which was
painted green, included about
rs feet Of wing, but the French
steamer did not stop to make
further investigation.
The position of the airpiane
wreckage indicated by the steam
CT Port de Dunkerque is not out
side the area where there might
be a possibility of finding the
missing plane of the Georgia
aviator, Paul r. Redfern. Red
fern hoped off on August 25
from GIynn Isle Beach, Bruns-
wick, Georgia, for Brazil, but
never reached his destination. 1t
is believed, however, that he flew
to within a comparatively short
distance of the Brazilian or Ven
zuelaan coast, and if he was
wrecked in the sea, the drift of
the ocean might carry the plane
many miles to the westward.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-30
PRESIDENTS COOLIDGE. GALES
CONVERSE OVER LONG DISTANCE

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (H9 -
With expressions of hope that the
closer contact will result in better
understanding between the two
atiOns President Coolidge and
President Gales inaugurated telc-
phone service today between
Washington and Mexico City with
a personal conversation.
Speaking into, an instrument in
the hall of Americas of the Pam
American union building, Mr..
Coolidge assured the Mexican
executive that he was deeply i'm
pressed with the engineering skill
that had linked the two capitals
and Mr.. Gales replied that he
hoped lthe event marked n new era
of good will and mutual UNDER
standing in which needless diff
ferenCes would be set aside.
Neither president could under
stand the other because Mr.. Cool
idge speaks no Spanish and the
Mexican executive scarcely any
English but their remarks later
translated, were carried along the
wire as clearly as if they had been
cOnversing in the same city.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-30
COWBOY RACES
Will Be GREAT
CARD ON TODAY
Is COwgirIs and so Cow
boys Will Compete in
Racing Program

Five cowboy races for purses aggre-
eating $1,050, the biggest horse racing
program ever offered in Douglas, will
be the outstanding attraction today
at the seventh annual< <Cochise county
fair.
Indications last night were that
about Is cowgirls and some so cow
boys would compete in the racing
program, which Lin Mobley, chairman
of cowboy sports, annunced Wuld
begin sharply at l p. M. At cwboy
meeting last night at the city hall
rules were discussed and entries re-
ceived.
The racing program, in the order
in which the events will be run,
follows:
Cow pony race, 300 yards, horses
qualified in calf roping, purse $l65,
divided $1OO, $50 and SIS.
= Cowgirl race, purse 5000, divided
$12O, $50 and $40.
Pony express race, one mile, four
horses. purse 5000, divided $12O, $50
and 500.
Free for-aH quarter mile race.
horses not eligible for other races,
purse $500, divided $500, $3.50, $50
Wild horse race, purse sos, divided
$50, $25 and $40.
A partial list of entries in the
various races were prepared last night
although additional entries will be
received and are expected up to 80
minutes before each race is run. The
list follows
Cowpony race, Frank Eaton, Ben
Bartlett, Tuck Potter, Bud Parker
j. H. Armstrong, Charles Gardner
and Tom Sims.
Cowgirl race entries by Frank
Eaton, Tuck Potter, Charles Gardner
! Tom Sims and j. H. Armstrong
/ Pony express race, Charles Gardner
| 'Fom Sims, Otho Cox and Lin Mobley
Free-for-all quarter mile race,
j.. Kennedy, Tuck Potter, CurIeJ
Anderson and G. W. Cox
Cowboys last night also were busy
arranging a number of match races
which will be run at various times
during this afternoons program.