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CAN'T WIN ALL CONTESTS
OLD GRADS MUST LEARN
Wisconsin Athletic Director Holds PRINCIPAL of Four
Duties of His Office Is to Inculcate Finer
Spirit i'm School Followers

| Notre Dame, 60. but otherwise was
undefeated. All Of which means that
| Thitlethwaite did quite a lot with q
creaky foot ball system which. even
| granting the presence Of one or two
stars in the past two years, was never
! bulkwarked by material of a high
average of excellence.
With the advantage of the building
| that George Little, who will give all
| his time to directing athletics, has
! done at Wisconsin in two years, with
| a better grade of material flowing in,
| the new coach should have a fine OPP
| portunity at Madison
AS to Little, there was no pressure
of any kind to cause him to relinquisn
foot ball coaching. The alumni are
back of him almost to a man and will
support him in his work of carrying
Wisconsin to the front in the cause of
athletics for all.
So far as Thistlcwaite is concerned.
it is unlikely that Wisconsin will pay
him much. ii anything. more than he
was earning at Evanston. There must
have been reasons other than 1inan-
cial which proved strongly influential.
Yale, and more specifically Burnside
WinsloW, chairman of the Yale base
ball committee. and II. +. Woodcock,
athletic director. are to be congratu
lated upon their wise, broad-mlnded.
thoroughly Christian way of handling
the case Of Joe Wood, the Eli base ball
coach. one of the ball players named
by Dutch Leonard in the Cleveland
Detroit betting allegations. Instead of
casting Wood out on the basis of snap
judgment, the Yale authorities, with
out undignified publicity, weighed him
In the balance as a mar, an athlete, a
sportsman and a coach, not only in
his technical capacity. but as an in
fiuence. And on the other side. an
alleged mistake, an error in judgment,
or whatever one may wish to call it,
committed seven years ago. was found
to be relatively inconseIuential. Wood
will continue at Yale, earning money
to support his wife and four children.
Pharisees will weep, but red-blooded
men of balanced sensibilities will be
glad to know that there is still sanity
in the world of sport.
tCopyr1ght 1927
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1ig Needed Little Thinks Stadium for 600 Planned BY Navy
AGEE WILL DEFEND
RACE LAURELS HERE

Bill Agee of Baltimore, long-distance
ace of the South Atlantic section. will
defend the hOnors he won on Wash
ington'S birthday last year. when he
completes again next month in a re-
newal of the annual 10-mfle modified
marathon race through the streets Of
Washington. The run again will be
held under the auspices of Aloysius
Club.
The entry list of last year, which
numbered 80 barriers, including Albin
StenroOS of Finland. is expected to be
bettered this year, as many men have
entered the distance racing field dur
ing the past II months.
In addition to the individual prize
offered the winner, "a team trophy will
be awarded. Several colleges in Wash
ington and Baltimore are expected to
enter teams.
The first of the smile preparatory
races staged by Aloysius Club is ex-
pected to be held shortly on the Plaza
track, near the Union Station
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HARVARD MAN DEFENDS
SCOUTING In FOOT BALI.

games and no information is at hand
in regard to the methods of the va
rious opponents. it is obvious that
several defenses and various types of
offense must be taught in order that q
given team may meet it's opponent on
basis which will permit it to show
the full scope of it's foot ball knowl-
edge.
Careful analysis will show it
tscoutinE) is a simple and sound bust.
ness expedient and. in reality, is u
side issue which does not merit all the
hue and cry raised about it.
The players do not spend a fifth
of the time on the result of the%Cout's
work that they do in the rubbing
room or shower baths. But | have
never heard of any one calling for
abolition of those two factors of
season.
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Stops Big Game Hunting.
Williams College has declined to
Thistlethwaite Experienced.

Glenn ThistlethWaite, Northwestern
grid coach, who will 90 to Wisconsin
next Fall, is a graduate of Earlham
College and he coached foot ball there
from 1909 To l4l2. In 1913 he sue
ceeded Bob Zuppke as coach at the
Oak Park High School. in Chicago,
where he made an excellent record.
In the meantime Northwestern was
being coached in turn by Fred Muir
ply of Yale. Bachman Of Notre Dame
and Elmer McDevitt of Yale. Occa-
sionally, AS in 1916, teams of this
university cid quite Well but, as a
general thing. Northwestern 81 position
was in the lower section of the Big
Ten ranking.
When ThiStlethwaite was called
there, in 1922. foot ball was at low
ebb and his task was 10 build first
a foundation. In his first year the
team tied Minnesota, lost to Illinois by
a small score, 10 3. and was
thrashed by the strong Chicago and
Iowa elevens. All in all. good
start.
Next year. though. Northwestern
won only two games out of eight
lO&ng every conference contest. In
extcnuation of this showing it might
be said that the material in 1923
was but little better In point of ex'
perience and playing ability than a
high school squad.
In 1924 the team lost to Purdue.
Michigan. Chicago and Notre Dame
but with the exception of Michigan
the Evanston eleven went down to de
feat only after nip and tuck struggles
Next wear Northwestern beat the all
conouering Michigan team, 3 to >. or
n Shiny field and would have had q
touchdown had not Northwestern
player tackled his own ball carrier as
he was running for the goal line un
obstructed. Games, however. were
lost to Tulane, 1871, and to Chicago
and Notre Dame by eyelash margins
Last season the eleven lost only t.
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George Starbuck, the big guard
on the Iillyards five that holds the
A. A. L. championship, has mas
tered II stunt that others might
we'll follow when it comes to block
ing shots for the basket by OPP
ponents. Starbuck goes up and
blocks the shot. He often actually
catches the ball, and thus starts an
offense for his team by either pass
ing or dribbling, as he is a master
of each.
Starbucl1's idea of guarding is to
keep in front of his opponent.
Often one of his teammates guard
ing an opponent is blocked. On
just such a play Starbuck. if near,
will cover the opponent of his
blocked teammate by rushing in
front of him as he is all set to
shoot, as in the upper illustra.
ton. As the player makes his
effort Starbuck rushes forward
and leaps high into the air, as in
the lower illustration. either block
ing the shot or catching the ball.
1t is treat to watch him do it.
Copyright. 1927
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PALACE FIVE PLAYS
CLEVELAND TONIGHT

Hot on the heels of the leading
Rosenblums, Palace Club, Washington
entry in the American Basket Ball
League, moved over to Cleveland to-
day to rest in preparation for brace
of contests with the league leaders
which are apt to decide the first half
leadership of the championship race.
Cleveland. by winning from the
Bruins at Chicago last night placed
another half game between themselves
and Palace, leaving Palace two games
behind the leaders. Rosenblums and
Palace meet tonight and tomorrow
night.
Immediately after the game tomor-
row night, Palace will entrain for
home to meet the Baltimore Orioles
Sunday night at the Arcadia.
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By the Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. January -
Foot ball scouting is defended as a
time-saving device and a sound bust
ness expedient by Harvard's chief
scout. James l.. Knox.
Both players and coaches are gain
ers by it. according to Knox. whose
views are given in the current issue
of the Harvard Athletic Association
News.
Harvard has declined to enter into
nonsCouting agreements 18th OPP
ponents, and an editorial in the News,
which is the official organ of the as
sociation. puts the approval of that
body on the practice.
Those who criticize foot ball scout
ing seem to overlook it's real place in
the seasons work. Knox writes. IF
a team is to play Il schedule of eight
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4 A George Washington Univer-
sity gym, when the Colonial
basketers play host to the sturdy Gal
laudet passers. G.. w. has won both
it's starts thus far. scoring over Della
ware and High Point College of North
Carolina.
The Kendall Greeners defeated Ar
mold College of New Haven, Conn. and
lost to Bridgewater College and Cath
Ollie University in three tests to date.
Coach Teddy Hughes quint. how
ever, is a fast and clever one, and
probably will offer the stalwart Co
lonials the keenest sort of battling.
In the only other engagement
booked for a local college court to-
morrow night the powerful Catholic
University combination will have Blue
Ridge College tossers of New Windsor,
Md, as their guests at Brookland.
The boys from the Maryland hills
are reported to have a sturdy five,
but Fred Rice's men are expected to
triumph.
Exhibiting smoother game as play
progressed, George Washington drib-
blers came from behind in the waning
moments Of it's game last night with
High Point to win, 81 to %. The Tar
heels We're ahead at the half. 13 to 10.
Loose playing proved costly to the
Colonial cause in the early going
Bland. Carey and Sapp figured prom
inently in the victorious G.. w. drive
on the cords.
Blue Ridge and either st. Vincent's
or Lebanan Valley probably will get
the two open dates remaining on
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tic. combinations are carded for
Arcadia Auditorium tomorrow night.
Epiphany Roses will face Dewitt
Prep in the opener. a tilt between
Eastern High and Hagerstown. Nd,
High. win follow and the finale will
bring together Tech. High and Wash
ington Co1legiates Of the senior league.
Track teams of high schools of the
third athletic district of Virginia will
hold their. annual meet May q on
Hayden field in Alexandria with the
high school of that city as host.
Alexandria won the meet last Spring.
Twelve schools comprise the district.
Woodward School basketers defeat
ed Franklin School in Baltimore yes
CerdaV, 81 to 1S
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INGRAM EAGER TO EXPAND
FACILITIES AT ANNAPOLIS
Athletic Director Includes New Boathouse as Well as
Stands in Building Program-M idshipmen
Have Fine Winter Sports Card.

March ., DartmOuth; ). Princeton
(at PrincetOn); IL, Rutgers: 19. Yale:
% and 26, finals of intercollegiate
Swimming Association City College of
New York;
WATER POLO.
January %, City College of New
York
February II, Syracuse; 10, Column
bia; 26. University of Pennsylvania.
March 2. Dartmouth; 5, Princeton
lat Princeton; II, New York Athletic
Club: 10. Yale.
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THREE DISTRICT COLLEGE
CUNTS PLAY TOMORROW
Callaudet Visits George Washington and Catholic u.
Entertains Blue Ridge-Colonias Extended to
Conquer High Point Tossers.

George Washington's 1927 foot. ball
schedule. The New Windsor Colleg-
ians may visit October s with one of
the other elevens coming here No.
vember IL. Games already arranged
for the Colonials who will be playing
an attractive card. are with
City College of New York, Rutgers,
Fordham, Ursinus, Penn State and
Catholic University
GeOrgetown's colOrs will be flashed
on the running track for the first time
this season, tomorrow night in the
knight sof Columbus games in New
York, when Capt. Jimmy Burgess,
feet quarter-miler appears in a spe-
cial 500-yard race. He will stack up
against q crack field
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MedisOn Square Garden of New
York was cleared of the bicycle track
in exactly one hour and half at the
close of the siX-day race in order to
prepare the arena for ice hockey, a
match being scheduled for the next
daN.
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LEAGUE HOCKEY.

New York Rangers, 1; Montreal
Canadians, 0.
New York Americans, 4; Montreal
MarOOns, 3.
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FOUR VETERANS REMAIN
ON CENTRAL TRACK TEAM
Coach Foley Faces Big Task to Develop Capable
Outft-SchOlastic Basket Ball Series to Get
Under Waw This Afternoon

w YITH but four of last season S
n letter men at hand, Bill
NV Foley, veteran Central
track coach, has a big job
TO develop "a capable team.
Capt. Chester Freeman, hurdler; John
Brashear, 100 and eco yard dash man;
Hunter Keller. another Splinter and
Calvin aIilans. high-jumper. are boys
around whom Foley must rebuild his
squad.
Among sturdy Blue and White ath-
letes that have been lost are Capt.
Gus Chaconas. crack SS0-yard man and
miller; Pennybaker. hurdler: Smith.
sprinter; Gottleib, broad jumper: Jim
Suter, pole vaulter; Coleman Jones,
javelin tosser, and Andy Young. quar-
ter-miler.
In addition to the four members of
the 1926 team the following promising
candidates are being put through their
PAGES these days on the indoor track
mt Central:
Wallace McGarry, former Hamp-
ton, Va, High School star, and
George Price. sprinters and quarter
discus and javelin: Buddy Noyes. low
hurdler: Bob Hall, dash man: Gene
Stevens. pole-vaulter and broad
Jumper; Horse" Davis. half miller
and weight-heaver: Bob COltman, an
excellent mile prospect: Warren
Moore, who is being counted upon
heavily in the half-mile: Goalsby,
whose forte is the 440; Stratton Lang,
high jumper: Fisher, NARROW Perry,
James Shelton. milers Hugh Buck
ingham, sprinter: James Littlepage.
quarter miller; James A. Riley, high
and broad jumper; Paul Herman,
dash man; Robert Adams and Ralph
Edison, quarter milers: Walter Dickie,
James Proctor, De Witt Hyde, 440-
yard hurdles; Winston Hobbs, half
miller; Roy Won Lewinski. high and
lower hurdler: Robert Walker. Simon
Mirman, weight events; MintZ, both
a Weight-heaver and runner; David
KrupshaW, sprinter; Nathaniel Ever
ard, WeitZen, Myers, LaZaro, Wolf,
| Smith, Beall Branin, Edison, Stark.
Turner, Walker and Orndorff.
While Coach Foley is optimistic he
| does not expect his squad, which Is
exceedingly youthful 10 "clean up" by
any means the coming season. He
has hopes, however, of developing a
fast quarter mile relay team and of
grabbing off a number of points in
the individual events in the various
meets
Business and Tech basket ball com
binations were to face at the Arcadia
Auditorium this afternoon at 3:15 in
the opening engagement of the public
| high title series. Immediately follow
ing this contest Central and Western,
| that are generally looked upon as the
strongest quints in the series. will
come to grips. There will be no
chance of the series this Winter end.
! ing in q tie. as was the case last sea
son. Play-offs of deadlocks in base
| ball and basket ball are now compul-
sorry in accordance with a recent rul-
| ing adopted.
| Probable line-uDS follow:
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Eastern Highs court combination.
that drew a bye in the championship
series and will not get action until
Tuesday, when it meets Business, en-
joyed fine workout yesterday at the
expense of Emerson Institute. Coach
Charley Guyon used Is players as the
Lincoln Parkers rang up a 43-to-20
win.
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COLLEGE BASKET BALL.

George Washington, %; High Point.
%.
Tulane, Fl; Sewanee, 90.
Allegheny, 22; Pittsburgh, 10.
Franklin, 40; DepauW, 25.
Lincoln College, 46; Arkansas Ag-
gies, Is.
Western Maryland, 20; Penn State
Forestry, II.
st. Johns of Brooklyn, 26: LOyOla
of Baltimore, II.
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Ten games appear on the 1927 pub
lie high school championship foot ball
series schedule announced yesterday.
Western and Central will meet in the
opening tilt on October Is.
The schedule:
October IS. Western VS.. Central; 81,
Eastern VS.. Tech: 25, Business VS..
Central; %, Western VS.. Tech.
November 1, Business We. Eastern;
4, Central VS.. Tech: s, Western VS..
Eastern; IL, Tech VS.. Business; 10,
Eastern VS.. Central; 10, Western VS..
Business.
Three court games involving schoias
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BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

!: IS: :; T.: 4:
and Stipoulat ting Snirit in his
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BANG-UP game of a strictly
local nature should be in or.
der tomorrow night in tho
George Washington Univer'
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Three court games Involving scholas
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tive side of Resolved, That Co
education Has Failed"

{. Good, warm rooms are listed ev-
cry day in The Times "Rooms Tor
Rent" columns.
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FAMILY NIOHI
ANNOUNCED AT BALLROOM

Thursday evening is night es-
tablished which probably never has
been undertaken in any ballroom in
the country. This is a night that
has been set aside and known as
Family Night" Hundreds of this
city's we'll known business men and
their families come to the Indiana
and participate in the frolic and
merry making and revel in this
beautiful Spanish garden in the
downtown district of the city.
Friday night finds the Indiana
Ballroom crowded with many young
people, and it is the young folks
frolic, collegiate night, give college
cheers, and do college dances.
The Sunshine Dansant Sunday
afternoon from 3 to 6 p. m. is an
occasion when youth and fashion
prevail.
Saturday and Sunday nights are
also colorful events.
y n
Indianapolis theaters today Of
fer: my Maryland" at English's;
the Diana Dancers at Keith's; Ca
ranas and Barker at the Lyric; Don
and Maize Dixon at the Colonial;
1.-THE Missing Link" at the Circle;
Streets of Sorrow" at the Bandbox;
1.-THE Crystal Cup" at the Indiana;
Honeymoon Hate at the Apollo;
Slightly Used" at the Ohio; movies
at the Isis and burlesque at the
Mutual.
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RUTHPAGE TODANCE
PETER PAM HERE.
Local Dancer Who CraCeS the STAGE Of the METROPOLITAN
Opera House to Appear at Murat in Recital
Thursday Night With BoIm.
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

It is the duty of this department. to call attention
worthy events the stage here before they arrive
have had people tell that they would have paronzed
certain special events they had been they were on
view
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Exchange and Optimists Clubs with
the hope of preventing threatened
transfer of 500 troops from the local
post to Camp Knox.
The old K. c. hut, built during
the war, is used for Service Club,
Miss Hawk said.
ut is a regular sieve when it
rains, or when snow melts. Water
can actually be 'shoveled' up from
the floors" she said.
Many of the windows are broken
and it was necessary to nail some
Of them shut during a storm last
summer when the hut was occupied
by the Citizen Military training
camp youths, she declared.
Floors sag and the building is
badly ventilated she said.
The Hoosier Unit, which is the
only organization doing social work
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MANY HERE END COLDS
BY QUICK, NOVEL METHOD
Doctors Show Way to Relieve
Cold Overnight at Home BY
Hospital Tested Method

A quick, pleasant and inexpen-
sive way to get rid of head colds
and chest colds has been endorsed
for home use by physicians as a
result Of its remarkable record in
hospital. private practice and in
many indianapolis homes.
Mrs. Edith Baker, for instance,
was treated by the clinic for Sc
we're head cold which had spread
way down into her chest. She
sneezed and coughed violently and
congestion was settling in the bron-
chial tubes. Doctors then advised
Ayers Cherry Pectoral-a concen-
trated mixture made especially Of
ingredients which hospitals have
found to be the quickest, safest and
most dependable to end colds.
Relief began instantly! With the
first pleasant spoonful she felt the
comforting, healing warmth, from
her nose passages deep down into
her chest. The cold began to clear
up at once and in day or so was
completely gone.
K0fas 0fhar casaq rannrfad dailv-
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URGES BETTER
SERVICE CLUB
Fl. Harrison Structure Is
Called Disgrace

Ft. BENJAMIN Harrison's Service
Club building is disgrace to Indi-
ana" Miss A. Grace Hawk, secre-
tary Of the Hoosier Unit Of Womens
Overseas Service League, declared
TODAY.
A move for better housing condi-
tons was started last week by the
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ACCOMMODATION LEADS
TO DRY LAW ARREST

Indiana Restaurant Man Got
Liquor for Good Customer"
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 7.-Cal-
vim Stevens, 81, proprietor of a
restaurant at Sweetser, Ind, OBJ
tanned liquor to accommodate a
good customer of his place, he de-
clared in Federal Court here where
ne faces a charge of violating the
prohibition law.
The good customer" was Edward
steinberger, "a, indianapolis. hired
by a Grant County merchant to get
evidence against dry law breakers.
stevens said Steinberger spent
money literally in the restaurant
and repeatedly asked for LIQUOR
Finally Stevens obtained some es-
pecially for the good customer {"
Arrest followed.
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Safety Pin VIII Do.

COLUMBUS. Ind, Dec. Drug
addiction, like necessity, is the
mother Of invention. Carl Tender,
A, wanderer, taken into custody
here by police, had no hypoderrlic
needle for injection of dope, but ne
made out just as we'll by using
common safety pin.
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Doctors find that this hospital medi-
cine does far more than stop coughing
instantly. 1t Is absorbed by the whole
system. This quickly checks phlegm,
heals irritation and drives ont the cold
from the nose passages, throat and
chest.
Just a few pleasant spoonfuls of
Cherry PectOral now and you'll feel
like a different person tomorrow. At
all druggists, 60c; twice as much In
$100 hospital size.
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A scheme is being considered for
heating the entire city of. Rey-
kiavik, capital of Iceland, by water
from subterranean hot springs.
There are twenty-nine volcanoes on
the island, seven of them still active,
including the famous geyser.